Astronomy

Learn the basics, get some tips and tricks, discover space telescopes, and journey around the solar system and beyond!

Services and information

The history of astronomy and how it affects our daily lives.

Getting started, stargazing tips, and information on eclipses and meteor showers.

Current, future, and past space telescopes.

Get the facts about stars, planets, galaxies, and black holes.

The Sun, planets, dwarf planets, comets and asteroids.

The exoplanet zoo, detecting exoplanets, brown dwarfs, the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

Contracts, grants and contributions.

Astronomy images and videos.

Astronomy infographics.

What the telescope can observe, its objectives, how it works and Canada's role.