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STEVE aurora

Mysterious STEVE gets ‘mint’ treatment

The Royal Canadian Mint has recognized the STEVE phenomenon with a new $20 fine silver collectors’ coin. It is the second coin in the Mint’s three-coin “Sky Wonders” series, featuring three different naturally occurring light displays in the sky.

Popular STEVE gets ‘mint’ treatment

In the News: Eric Donovan, Faculty of Science, on Global TV

University of Calgary on a mission to better understand weather in space

Make Alumni Weekend part of your weekend Sept. 5-8

In the News: CTV News

Calgarians celebrate 50th anniversary of moon landing

Aurora over northern Canada

UCalgary space team gets final green light to proceed with global aurora data project

In the News: UCalgary News

Day or night, Rothney Astrophysical Observatory invites researchers and citizen scientists to learn more about the universe

In the News: CTV Calgary

CTV Calgary: Students study physics of rollercoasters (Wesley Ernst)

When AuroraX goes live in about three years, there will be public outreach campaigns and programming for schools. The University of Calgary's Eric Donovan expects that visual artists will also be interested in accessing the data from the “edge of space.” Photo by Chris Cully, Faculty of Science.

Project opens a treasure trove of aurora borealis data to the world

In the News: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Congratulations to Paul Barclay, recipient of the 2019 CAP Herzberg Medal