Latest News:

COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink   (6 Oct 08)

CFHTsupported the discovery by looking with MegaPrime for signals from faint stars in the vicinity

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Discovery of the first retrograde Trans-Neptunian Object   (4 Sep 08)

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Four Large Programs awarded observing time over [2008B-2012B]   (19 Jun 08)

PAndAS

NGVS

MaPP

MiMeS

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Brown dwarf is coldest known stellar object   (10 Apr 08)
 

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Four teams receive funding to move forward new instrument concepts for CFHT's future   (1 Apr 08)

FIRST

`IMAKA

SITELLE

SPIRou

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Cosmologists unfold the dark cosmic web   (21 Feb 08)
  

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The spinning magnet of Sun-like stars: are close-in giant planets forcing the engine?   (12 Feb 08)
 

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About:

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is a non-profit organization that operates a world class 3.6 meter telescope atop Mauna Kea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano rising 4,200 meters above the Pacific Ocean. The Observatory headquarters are located in Waimea (Kamuela), where CFHT has been part of the community since 1977. The CFHT team of some 50 people includes engineers, technicians, astronomers, and administrators.

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