Dear CASCA members, We are pleased to invite members of the Canadian astronomy community to a tutorial and hands-on session on accessing and working with data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Data Preview 2 (DP2), hosted by the Canadian Data Intensive Astrophysics Platform (CanDIAPL). The session will introduce participants to the tools available for accessing and analysing Rubin data, including the Rubin Science Platform (RSP), CANFAR and tools developed by the CanDIAPL

I am recruiting MSc students to join my new group at the University of Victoria in September 2027. This group will work to discover and study exoplanets using Gaia astrometry, high-contrast imaging, and adjacent techniques like RV and transit. Supervisor: Dr. William Thompson, Assistant Professor (from July 2027), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria. Positions: MSc starting September 2027 (later starts considered). Priority deadline: 1 December 2026, f

The main panel shows the M59/M60 complex in the Virgo galaxy cluster with the location of UCD736 and other supermassive black hole hosting UCDs. The cutout shows a close-up of UCD736, located between M59 and M60. The top right panel is a Hubble Space Telescope imaging while the bottom right panel is the integrated white image from the Near Infrared Spectrograph integral field unit instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. Français: Le panneau principal montre le complexe