UVic and the Astronomy Research Centre (www.uvic.ca/arc) are so excited about CanSRC on our campus! CanSRC is Canada's data processing centre for the world's largest radio telescope project being built in Australia and South Africa. It is the only one in the Americas. tinyurl.com/mv8tzrph

The i process has been a key focus at www.canpan.ca for understanding how heavy elements in dynamic stellar nucleosynthesis form. The article in Quanta Magazine "Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms" tinyurl.com/2ze5s3bc tells the story of how this new understanding emerged.

Join us in congratulating Akshara Viswanathan for being 1 of 3 winners in this year's Gruber Fellowship Awards 🎉👏 Learn more: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UVicScience #Astronomy #GruberFellowship

We are looking forward to hosting Stellar Hydro Days VI in Victoria next week sites.google.com/view/stellar... A week dedicated to a deep dive into 3D simulations of stars, transport phenomena, internal gravity waves, asteroseismology predictions, wave turbulence and more ....

Congratulations Alan! And thank you for your leadership in the Astronomy Research Centre at @uvic.ca

Great accomplishment @wrtastro.bsky.social !!! William not only did exceptional work in the field of planet imaging but also lead one of our most important projects in recent years in computational stellar astrophysics on internal gravity waves in massive stars ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRA...

First paper by our MSc student Praneet Pathak: model uncertainties in white dwarf cooling ages. For a typical white dwarf, systematic uncertainties can reach 0.8 Gyr at 4000K – comparable to measurement errors! This is key when white dwarfs are used as cosmic clocks. arxiv.org/abs/2410.14014

Canadian astronomers, led by UVic PhD candidate Dori Blakely, have uncovered a groundbreaking look into how planetary systems (like ours!) are born. 🪐 Read about scientists’ innovative use of the James Webb Telescope to capture the early stages of planetary formation: www.uvic.ca/science/home...

Researchers from UVic’s Astronomy Research Centre used the James Webb Space Telescope to captured a rare glimpse of how young planets are forming. This groundbreaking discovery reveals how planets compete with their host star for material shorturl.at/Ei7Fh @ArcUvic #JWST

45 days until equinox ...

After an admittedly long gestation period our massive star core convection 3D hydro paper is finally out: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... Again there are many to me very appealing 3D flow images that demonstrate the nature of how stellar plasma swirls around. But two results stand out to me ...

I am excited to join the bluesky community. I am looking forward to find out what others do in science and computing, and to share new science results and developments from our group in Victoria, BC and from our collaborations: www.nugridstars.org, www.canpan.ca and www.ppmstar.org www.lcse.umn.edu