11 am to 3 pm daily, every 30 minutes Drawing inspiration from the Mystical Landscapes exhibition, enjoy a fun and educational visit to the planetarium in our Gallery School, and discover the amazing and unexpected landscapes found within our solar system and throughout the universe!

Speaker: Dr. Adam Muzzin, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, York University

Join us for our monthly recreational astronomy night meeting. This is where our members get to show their latest projects, or give tutorials and tips on just about everything to do with Astronomy. Talks start at 7:30, socializing starts at 7:00.

This is the 14th annual symposium organized by ASX and this year the theme is: "What Ifs: Is the Impossible, Possible?" We are honoured to be featuring Dr. Gurtina Besla, assistant professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and PI of the outreach project TIMESTEP; Professor David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University and lead of the Cool Worlds Lab; and Dr. Quinn Konopacky, assistant professor at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences - University of California, San Diego.

Speaker: Dr. Tyler Natoli, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

Join us for our monthly recreational astronomy night meeting. This is where our members get to show their latest projects, or give tutorials and tips on just about everything to do with Astronomy. Talks start at 7:30, socializing starts at 7:00.

Camping and working in the southernmost, coldest, highest, driest, windiest, least populated continent on Earth is no easy feat! Every year a team of meteorite hunters collects meteorites along the base of the Transantarctic Mountains. How do these explorers survive? What’s so special about these rocks? And why go all the way to Antarctica to find them? Come hear Dr. Marianne Mader, a participant of the 2012-2013 ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) Program talk about her experience and then put yourself in her shoes by practicing a little meteorite hunting of your own!

The Hubble Space Telescope has completely revolutionized our understanding of the universe, and has become a beloved icon of popular culture. As revolutionary as Hubble has been, we have pushed it to its scientific limits in many ways. Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has been in the works for almost two decades and is scheduled to launch in late 2018. It will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble.

If humans hope to ever get to Mars or farther, we will need to be able to grow food in space. The space travel environment produces unique challenges to growing food, including microgravity, limited water, artificial light sources and many more. Research at the Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility at the University of Guelph is showing us how to grow food in space and, in the process, is developing beneficial technologies for earth-bound farming.

SEDS-Canada's annual conference is back with the theme "Paving the Way Beyond Earth." Ascension 2017 will be hosted by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT). Join SEDS-Canada at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus from March 3rd to 5th, 2017 for a weekend packed with workshops and talks given by international and local speakers from the space industry, academia, government and media.