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After grazing the Sun's corona at a distance of 120,000 km from the Sun's surface Comet Lovejoy emerged on the other side of the Sun still intact. Images supplied by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.

Seven Canadian universities have joined a U.S. led consortium to build the 25 meter Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) in northern Chile at the site of the highest permanent ground-based telescopes in the world in the hopes of answering some of the fundamental questions of cosmology.

This month see Jupiter at sunset, Saturn at midnight, pretty moon and planet couples in-between. Plus find a comet, and an asteroid in your telescope. Also features the Valentines day flyby of comet Temple 1 by the Stardust NExT spacecraft. Brought to you by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

According to Philomena Bonis, the real reason why she hosted the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society (ASX) 8th Annual Expanding Canada's Frontier Symposium, on Friday, January 28th, at the University of Toronto Convocation Hall was to show that "the passions, the dreams and the interests of ordinary people can turn a series of seemingly small steps into something extraordinary."

Launched less than two years ago the Planck Space Telescope has released a new catalogue of data that includes thousands of never before seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming and some of the most massive clusters of galaxies ever observed. Planck's mission is to detect light from just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, an explosive event at the dawn of the universe approximately 13.7 billion years ago. Planck is a European Space Agency led mission with contributions from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.

If you're lucky enough to live in an area that sees the Northern Lights, or the Aurora Borealis, then you know how magically it can be to see the dance of light in the night sky. For those who don't get to see the Northern Lights the Canadian Space Agency and its partners now brings you the light show live to your computer through the AuroraMAX project web site.

A summary of the night sky for September with detailed information on observing the Moon on September 18.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) recently held its annual general assembly in Fredericton between July 1-4. One key event at the general assembly was an open forum and panel discussion titled "Boldly Navigating Where no one has Gone Before: The Future of the RASC in the 21st Century. The panel discussion was recorded for the Starizona's Let's Talk Stars radio programme hosted by David & Wendee Levy.

A new NASA teaser video was released yesterday for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And it's all about imagining what discoveries this next generation telescope and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope will find. Canada is a major contributor providing the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Tuneable Filter Imager (TFI). The JWST is schedule to be launched in 2014.