01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
As part of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), researchers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have discovered 838 Solar System objects out beyond the orbit of Neptune with such high precision, ...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... but staff had begun going around the blockade, and astronomy resumed. Tholen’s team trained 55 of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope’s visible-light detectors on their top target. “Despite some thin cirrus clouds and a lot of moonlight, we needed...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... technology development efforts. For example, the ILOA has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), a Multinational MoU with Southeast Asia Principal Operating Partners in four countries to date (Indonesia...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... was also covered by the Wise Observatory, the UKIRT 3.8m telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), and the VST survey telescope located at at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, its discovery is unlikely to be invalidated...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
...identified 45 candidate moons after trawling through 60 archival images taken in 2010 by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. These candidates are mainly small with diameters around 800 metres (0.50 miles...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
..., AGESM33-31, or the ringcloud, is shown on the left. To conduct the search, we are using data taken on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope in four colour bands. Having multiple bands is useful as some galaxies are brighter in some bands than others...
