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2022

Astronomers turn robotic eyes on our cosmic home, the Milky Way Galaxy

2 FPS units prior to robot installation in a room

Thanks to a breakthrough robotic innovation, an international collaboration which includes the University of Toronto has advanced the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a 20-year-long research project that has been investigating the structure and evolution of our cosmic home, the Milky Way Galaxy.

A new Focal Plane System (FPS) is at the heart of the fifth phase of the project, SDSS-V. The FPS…

Professor Norman Murray Awarded 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysical Insights

The Heineman Foundation, American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society announce Norman Murray, professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, as the winner of the 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

The Heineman committee selected Murray “for his deep theoretical insight into an exceptionally broad range of…

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