August 29 2023
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August 17 2023
Astronomers Find Progenitor of Magnetic Monster
August 16 2023
Mālama Maui
June 30 2023
Hawai'i Observatories Play Critical Role in Adding Color to the Euclid Space Mission
June 28 2023
Astronomers Discover Death-Defying Planet
June 01 2023
Second Impossible Ring Around Quaoar
May 16 2023
Saturn Re-Takes Moon Crown
March 17 2023
Call for Letters of Interest in CFHT & MSE
January 26 2023
A Tale of a Tail: A Tidally-Disrupting Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy in the M81 Group
August 31 2022
Weak Gravitational Lensing Reveals Dark Matter Maps of the Cosmic Webb
August 24 2022
An Extrasolar World Covered in Water?
June 15 2022
Maunakea telescopes capture near-Sun comet roasting to death
January 25 2022
Jean-Gabriel Cuby named CFHT Executive Director
January 05 2022
An Uniquely Pristine Cluster Remnant
December 22 2021
Largest Collection of Rogue Planets Discovered in our Milky Way
November 04 2021
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer and Astro2020
September 24 2021
White Dwarfs Become Magnetic As They Get Older
August 20 2021
Andy Sheinis appointed interim Executive Director
July 28 2021
Astronomers study a hot Jupiter in unprecedented details thanks to SPIRou
April 12 2021
Doug Simons Accepts Directorship of UH Institute for Astronomy
February 10 2021
Heart of the Crab
February 02 2021
SPIRou Stares at a Young Rebel: AU Mic Planetary System
October 15 2020
Anemic Star Cluster Breaks Metal Poor Record
October 14 2020
New M92 Stellar Stream Discovered
September 14 2020
JCMT discovers a biomarker in the clouds of Venus
September 10 2020
Galactic Census Reveals Origin of Most "Extreme" Galaxies
August 26 2020
New application of machine learning technique using SITELLE.
July 27 2020
UH Close approach Asteroid
May 19 2020
Galaxies and Black Holes Grow Together
May 13 2020
SITELLE Upgrade
May 6, 2020
COVID-19 Related Changes to Operations
March 30 2020
New Frontiers in Multi-Messenger Astronomy
October 03 2019
Cannibalistic Andromeda
October 01 2019
New Insights into 'Oumuamua
August 26 2019
New Insights into the Haumea Family
August 12 2019
CFHT spots an hazardous Near Earth Asteroid during its first night of returning to operations.
April 22 2019
Omega Centauri's long lost stars found.
April 04 2019
VESTIGE Traces M87 Ionized Gas
March 28 2019
Hawai'i Team Catches Asteroid As It Self-Destructs
October 08 2018
A PRISTINE Star
July 16 2018
Astronomers find a Famous Exoplanet's Doppelgänger
June 27 2018
Is 'Oumuamua really a comet?
May 23 2018
First light for SPIRou!
May 15 2018
SITELLE reveals the complexity of the nebula in NGC 1275
February 4 2018
Widespread galactic cannibalism in Stephan's Quintet revealed by CFHT.
January 29 2018
SPIRou arrives at CFHT.
January 09 2018
Finding Extragalactic Supermassive Black Holes using AGN reverberation.
December 01 2017
SPIRou on its way to CFHT!
November 20 2017
Haleakala and Maunakea Observatories team up to observe a visitor from outside the Solar System.
October 19 2017
Knowledge of interstellar dust questioned with WIRCam and Herschel observations.
September 11 2017
Rocky Planet Engulfment Explains Stellar Odd Couple
August 17 2017
A high velocity White Dwarf is thought to have survived a Supernova event.
June 05 2017
Limits seperating stars from Brown Dwarfs found.
April 18 2017
Massive exoplanet discovered using gravitational microlensing.
April 12 2017
Waterloo astronomers use CFHT to capture the first image of a Dark Matter Bridge.
April 04 2017
New clues about the early evolution of the Solar System revealed with simultaneous observations on Maunakea.
March 17 2017
Meridional wind on Venus detected for the first time in both hemispheres
February 07 2017
Laurent Drissen wins the NSERC Synergy award for Innovation.
January 26 2017
A precise and independant determination of the Hubble constant.
October 05 2016
A new look at the largest known disk galaxy.
July 12 2016
Structure of diffuse ISM revealed to unprecedented details.
July 11 2016
A new Dwarf Planet discovered with CFHT.
June 20 2016
The journal 'Nature' highlights the discovery of the young hot Jupiter.
April 29 2016
Unique Fragment from Earth’s Formation Returns after Billions of Years of Cold Storage
February 26 2016
Hawaii's leading observatories launch Maunakea Scholars Program.
February 08 2016
Spectacular tails of ionized gas found in NGC 4569.
October 15 2015
First discovery of a magnetic delta Scuti star.
October 12 2015
The CFHT call for the 2017-2019 Large Programs is now open.
September 11 2015
Discovery of two massive stars with a magnetic field in a binary system
September 10 2015
CFHT, Keck Observatories, Hubble and Spitzer find a Galaxy Cluster with a Vibrant Heart
September 09 2015
Using ESPaDOnS, the Matysse team reports the preliminary evidence that a hot Jupiter orbits a 2My star of Taurus...
July 10 2015
CFHT data helps New Horizons navigate toward Pluto.
June 30 2015
The call for Letters of Intent for the 2017 - 2019 round of Large Programs is now open
May 26 2015
Faint galaxies hiding in the Virgo Cluster
May 06 2015
A joint presentation between the the Hawaii astronomy community and those opposed to the construction of the TMT
April 10 2015
Université Laval and ABB deliver a unique instrument for astronomy
January 20 2015
MegaCam scattering problem solved.
November 12 2014
First observations of the surface of objects from the Oort cloud.
October 21 2014
NAOC signs new collaboration agreement with CFHT.
September 14 2014
The new MegaCam filters are available on a shared risk basis for 2015A.
July 17 2014
Fingerprinting the formation of giant planets
July 15 2014
Large number of Dark Matter peaks found using Gravitational Lensing.
June 14 2014
Archival research using CFHT images reveals a missing link in galaxy evolution.
May 13 2014
Announcing the Launch of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Project Office.
A team led by Université de Montréal has discovered a new planet 155 light years from Earth.
November 04 2013
SPIRou: Unveil new habitable worlds and study the birth of stars and planets.
October 22 2013
Results of CFHT's Announcement of Opportunity for New Instrumentation and Upgrades
October 09 2013
An exotic free-floating planet found by an international team of astronomers will help resolve Exoplanets mystery.
September 30 2013
CFHT's call for proposals for the 2014A semester is now closed.
August 29 2013
Using MegaCam on CFHT, a Canadian-French team of astronomers found the first trojan companion to Uranus.
August 09 2013
ADASS XXIII - Waikoloa, Hawaii ~ September 29 - October 3, 2013
April 10 2013
Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild
January 27 2013
Call for New Instrumentation at CFHT
December 18 2012
Board Statement on CFHT Future Development
May 6 2013
CFHT Users' Meeting 6-8 May 2013 Campbell River, Vancouver Island, Canada
March 12 2013
An unprecedented view of the large-scale structures in the Universe unveiled by VIPERS
March 11 2013
An International team has observed an unexpected change of direction of the magnetic field of HD190073.
March 09 2013
CFHT is now accepting proposals for the semester 2013B.
January 11 2013
Observations are affected by the January 5 2013 shutter failure.
January 03 2013
A vast rotating disk of dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda galaxy
December 05 2012
A bright green object in MegaCam images lead to the identification of a new class of Galaxy.
November 16 2012
A team from Lowell Observatory used ESPaDOnS to identify nearby stars that could potentially harbor exoplanets.
November 14 2012
ESO and CFHT have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through space without a parent star.
November 13 2012
A newly identified separate star cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster
November 02 2012
An international team of Astronomers use the CFHTLS to detect the farthest Superluminous Supernova.
October 26 2012
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Reveals Dark Secrets of the Universe
October 16 2012
Hubble and Mauna Kea telescopes team up for the first 3D study of a 60 million light-years long Dark Matter filament.
October 02 2012
CFHT announces the ngCFHT Workshop, 27-29 March 2013, Hilo, Hawaii.
September 25 2012
Come and learn while working out during the Solar System Walk Saturday June 29 from 10 am to 2 pm.
September 19 2012
Come observe the Moon on the CFHT front lawn in Waimea on Sep 22, 7pm-9pm, for the International Observe the Moon Night.
September 11 2012
In collaboration with HET, CFHT measures the strongest ever magnetic field around a massive star.
June 24 2012
Four new large programs were just accepted at CFHT. These will be observed during the 2013A to 2016B semesters.
June 20 2012
After 67 days of hard work, the Observatory was released for normal operations today at 14:10.
June 5 2012
With CFHT's help, UBC Researchers unveil Jupiter's smallest known moon
May 28 2012
Join us to observe safely the upcoming transit of Venus from 12:10 to 6:44 pm on June 5th!
April 30 2012
New CFHT Executive Director
April 27 2012
A very faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way
April 16 2012
On the morning of Saturday April 14, CFHT experienced a major failure of one of the dome shutter drives.
March 02 2012
Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation
January 09 2012
Astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed.
July 27 2011
Earth's first Trojan Asteroid discovered
July 21 2011
Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought?
July 05 2011
A bubble-like burst of light captured on two Hawaii telescopes last week likely has a terrestrial origin.
March 24 2011
CFHT, ESO, and Keck team up to find a candidate for coldest "star"
January 12 2011
CFHT releases a new low-light webcam mounted on the catwalk.
November 30 2010
From the front lawn of CFHT Headquarters, you will see the moons of Jupiter, the heart of Andromeda, the Orion Nebula, and much more...
August 25 2010
The 2011A proposals season is open! Deadline for submission: September 23, 24:00UTC
June 30 2010
The mysterious Leo giant gas ring explained by a billion year old collision between two galaxies
May 22 2010
The CFHT Users' Meeting will be held in Taipei (Taiwan) Nov 16-18, 2010. You can register now!
December 9 2009
CFHT celebrates its 30th Birthday with a 370 Megapixel image, an illustrated essay and 2 new wallpapers
October 22 2009
UKIRT, CFHT, and Chandra team up to unveil what could be the most distant galaxy cluster ever
September 15 2009
Mini-Comets Lit up 17P/Holmes During Mega-Outburst
September 4 2009
Andromeda caught devouring another galaxy
July 9 2009
Most distant supernovae found in the CFHT Legacy Survey
Chandra and CFHT team up for a spectacular image of the Stephan's Quintet
April 2 2009
CFHT honored by Canadian stamp for the International Year of Astronomy
