CFHT in the News

Here are links to some scientific results or important technical steps that made the news mainly over the past five years.
This list is in no way exhaustive, but it reflects the diversity of the scientific areas in which CFHT excels as well as the bias of the media toward our neighborhood, the Solar System...


Five new moons for planet Neptune (August 2004)  Wide Field Imaging
Infant Galaxies in the M81 Group (January 2004)
 Wide Field Imaging

Planet Creates a Stellar Storm - First Evidence of an Extra-Solar Planet with a Magnetic Field (January 2004)

High Resolution Spectroscopy

New Fast Lane towards Discoveries of Clusters of Galaxies Inaugurated (July 2003)

 Wide Field Imaging

De grands changements dans l'atmosphère de Pluton (July 2003)
 Imaging

More moons for Jupiter (April 2003)
 Wide Field Imaging

Advanced telescope camera astounds (April 2003)

CFHT Press Release web site
 MegaPrime/MegaCam
Press Release

New moons for Neptune (January 2003)
 Wide Field Imaging

A Planetary Companion to the Binary Star Gamma Cephei (October 2002)

 High Resolution Spectroscopy
11 more moons found around Jupiter (May 2002)
 Wide Field Imaging

Le télescope Canada-France-Hawaii et le télescope spatial Hubble traquent un objet binaire aux confins du système solaire (April 2002)
Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
 Wide Field Imaging

Scientists peer under Titan's thick fog (May 2001)

 Adaptive Optics

Fleet of new moons discovered around Jupiter (January 2001)

 Wide Field Imaging




Four new moons spotted around Saturn (December 2000)

 Wide Field Imaging

Astronomers Image Double Asteroid and a New Asteroid Moon (Oct 2000)

 Adaptive Optics

The CFHT Open Cluster Survey : NGC 2099 (June 2000)

 Wide Field Imaging
CFHT Gives First Glimpse of Dark Matter Distribution  (March 2000) Wide Field Imaging

BUZZING LIKE A BEEHIVE: URANUS NOW SWARMING WITH DISTANT MOONS (September 1999)
 Wide Field Imaging

Astronomers Discover Moon Orbiting Asteroid (March 1999)

 Adaptive Optics

Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae (January 1998)
 Wide Field Imaging

Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census (January 1997)

"New Hubble results" preceded by other efforts (November 1996)
 High Resolution Imaging
(HRCam)

Bright Star Birth Region in a Dim Galaxy (October 1996)