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March 23, 2013
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The Planck cosmology results were covered by all major news outlets in Canada. Links to the coverage can be found here:
The Globe and Mail, March 21, 2013
G&M – the CMB: before and after Planck
The Toronto Star, March 21, 2013
CBC Radio, Quirks & Quarks podcast – Dick Bond on the Planck Cosmology…
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March 21, 2013
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The best map ever made of the most ancient light in the universe — the remnant radiation left over from the Big Bang some 13 billion years ago — clarifies our understanding of the universe. The highly detailed image of the universe — produced by the European Space Agency’s Planck Space Telescope and the Planck collaboration of international scientists including a team from U of T —…
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March 18, 2013
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The first cosmology data release from the Planck mission will take place March 21, 2013 in Paris, at 10 AM CET (4 AM EST).
The Planck results presented will include the world’s highest resolution all-sky map showing the detailed patterns in the remnant radiation left over from the Big Bang some 13 billion years ago. To create the map, the Planck scientists removed the bright foreground…
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January 11, 2013
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Outreach: Dr. Linda Strubbe leads the Nigeria Short Course in Astronomy
In October, 2013, CITA post-doctoral fellow Dr. Linda Strubbe led a team of three graduate students from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics to teach a five-day short course in Astronomy. The course was the culmination of 10 months of intense preparation and more than a year of planning, and was attended…
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