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Brown dwarfs form like stars, but are not massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion of hydrogen within their cores -- a defining mechanism within proper stars -- yet are too massive to be called planets.

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Citizen scientists help discover two exotic brown dwarfs in the Milky Way

10 July 2020

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Artist’s representation of the planet (foreground) and its star (background).

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Discovering an exoplanet the size of Neptune

25 June 2020

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David Saint-Jacques et René Pelletier

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René Pelletier, the osteopath who helped David Saint-Jacques readjust to life on Earth

15 October 2019

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An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b.

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Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

11 September 2019

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Artist's illustration of gas streaming from GJ 3470 b.

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Probing a new class of exoplanets

2 July 2019

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(L) A view of Eta Carinae by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2000. (R) What the star could look like in 2032, when it overshadows its nebula.

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Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky

29 January 2019

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Artist's depiction of the inside of a white dwarf. Credit: Mark A. Garlick, University of Warwick.

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Thousands of stars turning into crystals

9 January 2019

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On March 30, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will be sent into orbit in search of extraterrestrial life.

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The search for ET

11 December 2018

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A size comparison of the Earth, Wolf 503b and Neptune. The color blue for Wolf 503b is imaginary; nothing is yet known about the atmosphere or surface of the planet.

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A new exoplanet is discovered by an international team led by a young master's student

6 September 2018

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A night view of the Mont-Mégantic Observatory.

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Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years

8 August 2018

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Artist’s view of an active red dwarf similar to AD Leo, known for its huge flares. AD Leo was the first star observed with CFHT’s new instrument SPIRou.

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First light for SPIRou!

24 May 2018

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Filamentary structure around the galaxy NGC 1275, in HD.

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Revealing the complexity of the nebula in NGC 1275 with SITELLE

15 May 2018

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Illustration of an "ultramassive" black hole detected by the team of astrophysicists.

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“Ultramassive” black holes discovered in far-off galaxies

19 February 2018

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This white darwf is about the size of the Earth.

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Nature article turns theory of stellar evolution upside-down

11 January 2018

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Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six planets orbit.

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Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod

9 January 2018

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Artistic ilustration of planet K2-18b, its star K2-18 and the second planet K2-18.

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Two Super-Earths around star K2-18

5 December 2017

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Artistic illustration of an exoplanet.

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A new spin to solving mystery of stellar companions

4 December 2017

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The Near Infra Red Planet Searcher.

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ESO’s La Silla Observatory to host new planet hunter

1 September 2017

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Scientists solve mystery of blinking brown dwarfs

17 August 2017

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Astronomers discover a new branch in the family tree of exoplanets

20 June 2017

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Iota Orionis binary star system

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Iota Orionis: pulsating beacon of a constellation

8 March 2017

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An artist’s conception of a free-floating planet-analog courtesy.

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Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard

28 February 2017

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Artist's image of WD1145+017.

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Disintegrating asteroid is raining dust onto a white dwarf star

21 October 2015

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Trottier Foundation donates $1 million towards search for extraterrestrial life

7 October 2015

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An artistic conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet, 51 Eri b, seen in the near- An artistic conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet, 51 Eri b, seen in the near-infrared light that shows the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through clouds. Beca

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Astronomers discover "young Jupiter" exoplanet

13 August 2015

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