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27 September

OSC: Total Lunar Eclipse: A Celestial Celebration

Join the Ontario Science Centre on the evening of Sunday September 27 to view the last total lunar eclipse until January 2018! Rain or shine! • Witness the spectacle of the brightest and largest full Moon of the year as it moves into the Earth’s shadow and turns dark red! • Attend a 7 pm screening of the film IMAX® Hubble at the special price of $9! • Gaze at celestial objects through telescopes (weather permitting).
4 December
28 November

UofT Planetarium: It’s All A Matter of Scale

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, 9:00pm
4 December

Bill Nye The Science Guy Live

Join Bill Nye for a night of comedy and science.
3 December

Perimeter Institute: Interstellar Voyaging: An Evolutionary Transition (WEBCAST)

Cameron Smith, author, anthropologist The discovery of countless exoplanets and new ideas in propulsion physics have resurrected international interest in the ancient concept of humanity traveling far beyond Earth. Such voyages will take place over many generations, requiring careful attention to both biological and cultural change over time. In this talk Cameron Smith will outline the foundations of a biocultural science of long-term space settlement.
13 November

ASX: More to the Universe than Meets the Eye

James Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
21 November

ASX: Are Humans Ready to Land On Mars? (SOLD OUT)

Speaker: Nicholas Sion In partnership with the Canadian Nuclear Society - Toronto Branch
24 January

RCIScience/RASC Lecture: The Dishes, The Desert, and The Dawn of the Universe

Dr. Bryan Gaensler, Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the UofT, and Canadian Science Director for the Square Kilometre Array.
27 October

Fields Institute: Mathematics and the Mystery of Dark Matter

Donald G. Saari, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics; Director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine
19 February

Richview Library: The Facts and Maybes about Black Holes and Time Warps

Black holes, faster-than-light travel and time machines appear regularly in science and non-science fiction and sometimes even on the evening news. But what is really known about them?