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2020 CASCA Awards
Dunlap Award The Mont-Mégantic Observatory is proud to announce that René Doyon, Director of OMM…
JWST completely assembled for the first time
After being tested separately, the two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have finally…
JWST Completes Critical Milestones in February 2019
The month of February 2019 saw the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully pass a…
All systems go for exo-Earth hunter SPIRou
Nine months after capturing its first images from atop Maunakea in Hawaii, the scientific instrument…
HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project for the direct imaging of exoplanets
HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project from Université Laval led by Prof. Simon Thibault,…
Funding for the Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years
Ottawa and Quebec announce $4M in funding for the world-class observatory through 2023. With a…
SPIRou’s First Light!
After four months of hard work by engineers and scientists from France, Canada, Switzerland and…
Prix du recteur 2018: Olivier Hernandez receives a special mention
Olivier Hernandez, former iREx Coordinator and former Director of Operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM),…
René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship
Astrophysicist René Doyon, professor at UdeM’s Department of Physics, director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and…
Happy Birthday, Dear OMM!
In 2018, the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) celebrates its 40th anniversary. It was in April…