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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Reports a Spectacular Flare from the Centre of the Messier 87 Galaxy
December 13, 2024
By Lyuba Encheva (with files from EHT press office)
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics researchers Bart…
CITA Fellow James Beattie was awarded close to 100-million-core-hours to explore the nature of turbulence and dynamos
November 6, 2024
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
CITA and Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James…
Van Gogh’s depiction of the starry night closely resembles the turbulence found between the stars in our Galaxy
September 30, 2024
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
“Van Gogh’s depiction of the starry night closely…
CITA National Jamboree 2024
The Jamboree is an annual gathering of the CITA community from all over Canada, which provides an opportunity for new…
Job App Hackathon 2024
August 28, 2024
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The CITA mentorship committee is once again hosting a Job App Hackathon! The CITA Job App Hackathon is an…
CITA welcomes six Fellows to cohort 2024
August 16, 2024
CITA extends a warm welcome to our incoming Fellows and National Fellows. In September, we will be joined by four…
Former CITA Postdoctoral Fellow receives the 2024 IAU Astronomy Education Prize
July 22, 2024
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
In June the International Astronomical Union [IAU]…
Remarkable gravitational-wave signal detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration
April 5, 2024
Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration released information on one of the events detected during its current…
White Dwarfs Get a Second Stellar Life Due to Buoyant Crystal Formation
March 6, 2024
By Milan P. Ilnyckyj, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Research published in Nature by CITA Nationa…
CITA faculty Maya Fishbach receives the 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics
February 21, 2024
By: Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Assistant Professor Maya Fishback, one of t…