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Two Remembrance Day pins sit side-by-side on a wooden surface: A red poppy pin sits next to a gold ribbon-shaped pin that features an emblem of a pigeon.
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Animals in war: Unlikely war heroes took to the skies

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Sonia Mendes
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Oct 26, 2020
In honour of the wartime contributions of animals, the Ontario SPCA and the Humane Society have unveiled a collectible Remembrance Day pin.
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Canada’s Name the Exoplanet Contest!

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Nov 14, 2019
Scientists have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, aka exoplanets. Most of those planets have boring names consisting of letters and numbers that keep track of the star catalogue in which they are listed. Take, for example, planet HD 136418b. The "HD" refers to the Henry Draper Catalogue, the "136418" means the planet orbits the 136,418th star in the catalogue, and the "b" refers to it being the first planet discovered around that star (they don't use "a" because
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Decoding the Dance of the Honey Bee, in Real-Time

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Lauren DiVito
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Oct 12, 2017
Since the deciphering of the honey bee ‘waggle’ in the 1920’s by Karl von Frisch, researchers have been measuring the dance-like form of communication that allows bees to convey direction and distance to a food source. While this observation process was initially manual and time-consuming – requiring humans, protractors, and stopwatches – techniques have evolved with technology. Recently, a team from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
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VST Captures Three-In-One

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jul 25, 2017
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released a 3 gigapixel image of Sharpless 2-54, the Eagle Nebula, and the Omega Nebula; the detail is astounding. Taken with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at the Paranal Observatory, Chile, the image spans roughly 2 degrees on the sky, or about 4 full moons side-by-side. One of the most iconic nebula in the sky, the Eagle Nebula is at the centre of the image.
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Newly Discovered Exoplanet May be Best Candidate in Search for Signs of Life

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
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Jul 25, 2017
A newly discovered exoplanet, LHS 1140b, is being called the "best place to look for signs of life beyond the Solar System." The reason is because of a confluence of factors: the planet is likely rocky, orbits a relatively quiet star, passes in-front of its star from Earth's point-of-view every 25 days, and likely has an atmosphere. At the moment, studying that atmosphere in detail is not possible; however, with the next generation of telescopes coming online in the coming years (TMT, ELT, JWST)
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ESO Signs Contracts for the ELT’s Gigantic Primary Mirror

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jul 25, 2017
Looks like progress for the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope. Two contracts were awarded to companies to build and test the 39 mirror segments (each 1.4 meters across). Once completed, ELT will be the largest optical telescope on the planet.
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Astronomers Create Detailed Plans for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) using LEGO®

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jun 29, 2017
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building one of three next generation optical telescopes, called the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). It will have a primary aperture that is 39 meters wide made of segmented mirrors. Astronomer Frans Snik and his team have created detailed LEGO® instructions for you to now build your own ELT. As both an astronomer and lover of LEGO®, I approve of this project. The other two next generation optical telescopes are the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which
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A New Take on the Robotic Arm: Tentacles

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
Engineers are constantly taking cues from nature when designing new technologies, and the robotic tentacle arm created by German robotics company, Festo, is a great example.
Google’s New Tool Says Nearly 80 Percent of Roofs Are Sunny Enough for Solar Panels
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Google’s New Tool Says Nearly 80 Percent of Roofs Are Sunny Enough for Solar Panels

Apr 21, 2017
The company’s Project Sunroof lets you look up your house and helps you decide whether to invest in your own clean power plant.
Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits
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Chemists Are First in Line for Quantum Computing’s Benefits

Apr 21, 2017
Efforts to invent more practical superconductors and better batteries could be the first areas of business to get a quantum speed boost.

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