PhD candidate Meghan McGill receives the 2009 William H. Wehlau Scholarship.

The Physics and Astronomy Student Association (PASA) is pleased to announce their first photo contest.

Professor Jan Cami and colleagues take new high resolution images of supergiant star Betelgeuse. See details.

Astronomers are using stereoscopic projection as an exciting new computing tool.

Mid-summer report from Leverhulme Visiting Professor John D. Landstreet.

The first infrared images from the Herschel Space Telescope were recently released.

Owen Blackwell is this year's recipient of the Maude Holt Kingston Gold Medal in Astronomy.

Prof. Martin Houde and research scientist Dr. Carolyn McCoey are involved in the successfully launched Herschel space observatory.

A large fireball on the evening of March 15, 2009 (March 16 Univeral Time) may have left ground fragments north-east of Newmarket, Ontario. It was detected by several all-sky cameras which are operated by the Meteor Physics Group here at Western.

Professor Carol Jones and PhD student Robbie Halonen were in Vina del Mar, Chile, for a meeting titled "The Interferometric View on Hot Stars". More...

Author Dan Falk spoke at an IYA 2009 event on April 17. The presentation was entitled "In Search of Time".

Astronomy and Meteor Physics winners of the prestigious NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship are Wolf Dapp, Robbie Halonen, and Elizabeth Silber. More....

International Year of Astronomy activities:

• 100 Hours of Astronomy - April 2.
• London activities for 100 Hours of Astronomy

The 2009 CAP Public Lecture was presented by Dr. James Taylor.

The 2009 Nerenberg Lecture was presented by Dr. Sallie Baliunas.

Two of our astronomers reached the short list of 192 candidates who vied for 8 astronaut positions with the European Space Agency (ESA).

The 6th Annual Planetary Science and Exploration Public Lecture was held on Friday, March 6. Dr. Seth Shostak gave a presentation entitled "When will we Discover the Extraterrestrials?".

Opening ceremonies for The Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration and The Canadian Lunar Research Network took place on Friday, February 27, 2009.

The First Annual Theoretical Physics Public Lecture took place on Wednesday, February 25 to a standing room only audience in Conron Hall.
The inaugural lecture, by Dr. Neil Turok, Director, The Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario was entitled "What Banged?".

Meet Western Astrophysicist Sarah Gallagher - In Profile (Western News).

Professor Emeritus John D. Landstreet has been appointed Leverhulme Visiting Professor for 2009.

Western astronomers install new instrumentation on Mauna Kea.

Professor Emeritus David F. Gray has been actively doing research at Western's Elginfield Observatory for the past 40 years.

Graduate student Ellen Milley finds the first Saskatchewan meteor fragments.

Annemarie Pickersgill is one of the Canadian winners of a trip to the International Year of Astronomy opening ceremonies which will be held in Paris, France.

Prof. Carol Jones has been appointed as the first Assistant Dean of Diversity and Outreach for the Faculty of Science.

Western astronomers take images of asteroid just hours before it crashes into the Earth's atmosphere.

The Ontario Star Formation Jamboree was held on Saturday, October 18th.

Western Astronomers photograph asteroid TC3-2008 just hours before it hits the earth.

Get to know more about Professor Emerita Amelia F. Wehlau.

We welcome our new graduate students for this coming year. They are Jeffrey Bailey, Rhiannon Blaauw, Alex DeSouza, Konstantin Fedotov, Ryan Marciniak, Amanda Papadimos, and Nicole Wityk.

Talayeh Hezareh is the 2008 winner of the William H. Wehlau Scholarship.

We get to learn a bit more about Prof. Emerita Amelia F. Wehlau in this article by Rebecca St. Pierre of the Faculty of Science.

An asteroid has been named after professor Phil Stooke.

The best poster paper award at CASCA 2008 was presented to Sarah Malek.

Professor Sarah Gallagher received an honourable mention in selection for recent award in physics.

Collaborators from Université de Montréal spent a week with Prof. Martin Houde.

Undergraduate student Amanda Papadimos has uncovered two possible Centaur Objects which are orbiting in our solar system.

Researchers in Western's Meteor Physics group have used all-sky camera images and mathematical models to calculate the trajectory of a fireball which may have landed as a meteorite in the Parry Sound area.

Two Jamborees on topics in 'Star Formation' were held at Western and The University of Toronto.

Astronomy and Planetary Sciences had a strong showing at the 2008 Science and Engineering Showcase.

Dr. Pasquale Temi of Western and fellow researchers Dr. William Mathews of the Univ. of California, and Dr. Fabrizio Brighenti of University of Bologna (IT), have made some groundbreaking observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Prof. Jan Cami and his colleagues have used optical interferometry to detect the existence of a molecular shell around the well known supergiant star Betelgeuse.

A group of astronomers, including Western's Sarah Gallagher have discovered a new source of cosmic dust

Dr. Carol Jones was among eight science and business faculty members who received Academic Enrichment Grants from Foundation Western.

How to use the sundial at Cronyn Observatory.