Mapping the Milky Way
September 12, 2022
Nestled in a remote valley just an hour outside of Kelowna, amongst ridges and plateaus where cattle graze, Dr. Alex Hill, an assistant professor in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his students are watching the stars. But they’re not star-gazing for the fun of it; rather, the team is using a state-of-the-art telescope at Canada’s largest radio observatory—the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory—to understand the origins of our universe.
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