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An extrasolar world covered in water?
With the help of instruments designed partly in Canada, a team of Université de Montréal astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water, a target they hope to observe with the Webb Telescope soon.
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Signs of CO2 in a planet beyond our Solar System
An international team including iREx member Björn Benneke announces the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet using the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Our 2022 summer interns
The 2022 summer internships at iREx are now over. Our interns have worked hard and achieved impressive results. In these short interviews, let them tell you what they worked on, what they struggled with, and what they loved most about their experience with us!
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Interview with Romain Allart - Detecting exoplanets with ESPRESSO
In February, it was announced that the ESPRESSO instrument had detected a small exoplanet around the star closest to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri. Romain Allart, an iREx Trottier Postdoctoral Fellow who was part of the discovery team, answers our questions.
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My time at iREx: James Sikora
James Sikora, a postdoctoral researcher at Bishop's University, is leaving us in September to pursue his career at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. We asked him a few questions about his time at iREx.
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My thesis in 400 words: Lisa Dang
This summer, Lisa Dang completed her Ph.D. thesis at McGill University. During her studies, she worked with the Spitzer Space Telescope to learn more about the climate of three very different exoplanets. She summarised her doctoral thesis for us in 400 words.
Read Lisa's summary
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Webb’s dazzling first images are just the beginning
To mark the release of the Webb Telescope’s first images over the Summer of 2022, our Deputy Director Nathalie Ouellette, who is also the Outreach Scientist for Webb in Canada, reflects on what this mission means to her and to a generation of young researchers.
Read her testimony
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The NIRPS Spectrograph – Interview with our astronomers
The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) was recently installed at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. We asked some questions to our astronomers Frédérique Baron, Étienne Artigau and Charles Cadieux, who were on site to help with the installation of the instrument.
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New: a research experience in high school or CEGEP!
InitiaSciences, an initiative of Caroline Piaulet, Ph.D. student and iREx member, won a prize at the Défi OSEntreprendre. Secondary school (3,4,5) and CEGEP students have until September 23 to apply and do exoplanet-related research with Caroline or André, another of our students! More on their website.
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The iREx now on LinkedIn!
Thanks in part to the work of Érika Le Bourdais, our Sureau Science Communication Fellow this summer, the iREx now has an account on the LinkedIn platform. Another great way to learn more about our research and science education activities!
Follow us on LinkedIn!
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Invite an iREx astrophysicist to visit your library!
As part of Science Literacy Week, taking place on September 19-25 2022, the astrophysicists of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets offer to visit your library to talk about astronomy.
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Our astronomers reach out to teachers
This fall, iREx astrophysicist Marie-Eve Naud from and Julie Bolduc-Duval from Discover the Universe will meet teachers at the Aestq congress on October 20 and 21 and at the AQEP congress on November 24 and 25, to present the educational resources for elementary and secondary school developed as part of the Exoplanets in the classroom project. They look forward to meeting you!
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