Hi everyone! Just want to let everyone know that the location for our upcoming Symposium has changed from JJR MacLeod Auditorium to Earth Sciences Centre (33 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S), room 1050. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused or will cause.
Hey everybody! As posted before, this year’s ASX Symposium will tackle the challenges of human space exploration. The Symposium will feature two speakers, Dr. John B. Charles (NASA Human Research Program) and Prof. Soon-Jo Chung (CalTech; Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and will be held on February 2nd, from 6:00pm-9:00pm in the JJR MacLeod Auditorium (1 King’s…
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Happy New Year everybody! To begin the year we’re doing something a little different. This month’s image is taken by Afsheen Rane, an amateur astronomer at University of Toronto.
Photographed is the Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42) which is around 1300 light years away from Earth.
We know that it is extremely difficult for us to send vehicles to outer space, especially if we are to send a human in it. So what does it really take for us to travel beyond our planet and solar system and to survive under “zero-gravity”? Join us in our 15th Annual Symposium as Dr.…
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Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off the North America Nebula’s east…
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