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Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard appointed to NSERC Council
17 June 2021

Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard appointed to NSERC Council

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard to the Natural Sciences and…

Final tests for Webb’s sunshield
7 February 2021

Final tests for Webb’s sunshield

Despite some minor delays in the project, the James Webb Space Telescope achieved several important…

SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system
2 February 2021

SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system

SPIRou, the new high-precision infrared spectropolarimeter recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, has measured for…

First images for the NIRPS spectrograph
9 September 2020

First images for the NIRPS spectrograph

The NIRPS spectrograph, whose design is led by a team from the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Centre d’optique photonique et laser (COPL)…

René Doyon, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
8 September 2020

René Doyon, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

The OMM is very pleased to announce that its Director, René Doyon, is now a…

New launch date for Webb
30 August 2020

New launch date for Webb

NASA and its international partners, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, are…

New Worlds Found in Our Cosmic Backyard
18 August 2020

New Worlds Found in Our Cosmic Backyard

Citizen scientists, aided by the NOIRLab facilities and data from the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, have…

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image
1 May 2020

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image

An image submitted by Étienne Artigau, an OMM researcher, was selected by the jury of…

2020 CASCA Awards
29 February 2020

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
3 September 2019

JWST completely assembled for the first time

After being tested separately, the two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have finally…