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Music Monday with Chris Hadfield

Monday, May 6 is Music Monday. Check this link.

Apollo Rocket Engine Recovered from Ocean Floor

Launched more than 40 years ago, the huge engine from a Saturn V rocket has been recovered from the ocean floor in an expedition financed by billionaire Jeff Bezos. For more information, click here.

Where in the World is Chris Hadfield?

Dave MacLean, a Geography instructor from Nova Scotia, has mapped the location of Chris Hadfield’s photos from the International Space Station. Click here to see the map of Chris Hadfield’s photos. To read more about Dave MacLean, click here.

Upcoming Chris Hadfield Events – March 2013

Upcoming Chris Hadfield Documentaries during March Break. In Toronto the documentaries are being aired on Channel 9 – Crossroads Television System or CTS for short. If you have High Def it is labeled as CTSHD. The dates and times are as follows Sat March 9, 9-10 pm – Here I Stand- The Chris Hadfield Story […]

Earth Flyby of Asteroid DA14

On Friday, February 15, 2013 Asteroid DA14 flew past the Earth approximately 27,000 km away, closer than many of our communication and weather satellites. The asteroid was about 45m in diameter – often described as “half a football field” in size. This asteroid was first discovered in February 2012 by amateur astronomers in Spain. Fortunately, […]

The Last Transit of The Century!

(The following report is for a current events report written by Helen, grade 6.) Today, June 5th 2012 was the last Venus transit for 105 years, making the next Venus transit 2117. Today was the last Venus transit of the century! At the Varsity Stadium, there was a huge event hosted by the UofT’s Dunlap […]

Partial Solar Eclipse – May 20, 2012

Toronto experienced the first few minutes of a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, May 20, 2012, just before sunset. See this link for more details. http://news.discovery.com/space/solar-eclipse-120521.html Photograph by John Goodyear – May 20, 2012

Varsity Stadium Venus Transit Event June 5, 2012

(Copied from http://universe.utoronto.ca/special/transit2012) Time lapse of the 2004 transit of Venus. (Image credit: Antonio Cerezo, Pablo Alexandre, Jesús Merchán y David Marsán.) On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will pass across the face of the Sun. This phenomenon, called a ‘transit of Venus’, has not happened since 2004 and will not happen again until […]

Venus Transit – June 5, 2012

On Tuesday June 5, 2012, Venus will transit the sun for the last time this century. The next Venus transit will occur on December 10, 2117, more than 100 years from now. Although Venus transits have occurred for millennia, they have only been observed six times before in recorded history. Never look directly at the […]