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March 28 2024 The Darkest Galaxy Read more»	February 22 2024 The call for 2024B proposals is now open Read more»
February 20 2024 Call for 2025A - 2026B CFHT Large Programs Read more»	January 30 2024 Call for Letters of Intent to Submit a CFHT Large Program Proposal Read more»
January 26 2024 2023 CFHT Survey results Read more»	August 29 2023 2023 CFHT Survey Read more»
August 17 2023 Astronomers Find Progenitor of Magnetic Monster Read more»	August 16 2023 Mālama Maui Read more»
June 30 2023 Hawai'i Observatories Play Critical Role in Adding Color to the Euclid Space Mission Read more»	June 28 2023 Astronomers Discover Death-Defying Planet Read more»
June 01 2023 Second Impossible Ring Around Quaoar Read more»	May 16 2023 Saturn Re-Takes Moon Crown Read more»
March 17 2023 Call for Letters of Interest in CFHT & MSE Read more»	January 26 2023 A Tale of a Tail: A Tidally-Disrupting Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy in the M81 Group Read more»
August 31 2022 Weak Gravitational Lensing Reveals Dark Matter Maps of the Cosmic Webb Read more»	August 24 2022 An Extrasolar World Covered in Water? Read more»
June 15 2022 Maunakea telescopes capture near-Sun comet roasting to death Read more»	January 25 2022 Jean-Gabriel Cuby named CFHT Executive Director Read more»
January 05 2022 An Uniquely Pristine Cluster Remnant Read more»	December 22 2021 Largest Collection of Rogue Planets Discovered in our Milky Way Read more»
November 04 2021 Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer and Astro2020 Read more»	September 24 2021 White Dwarfs Become Magnetic As They Get Older Read more»
August 20 2021 Andy Sheinis appointed interim Executive Director Read more»	July 28 2021 Astronomers study a hot Jupiter in unprecedented details thanks to SPIRou Read more»
April 12 2021 Doug Simons Accepts Directorship of UH Institute for Astronomy Read more»	February 10 2021 Heart of the Crab Read more»
February 02 2021 SPIRou Stares at a Young Rebel: AU Mic Planetary System Read more»	October 15 2020 Anemic Star Cluster Breaks Metal Poor Record Read more»
October 14 2020 New M92 Stellar Stream Discovered Read more»	September 14 2020 JCMT discovers a biomarker in the clouds of Venus Read more»
September 10 2020 Galactic Census Reveals Origin of Most "Extreme" Galaxies Read more»	August 26 2020 New application of machine learning technique using SITELLE. Read more»
July 27 2020 UH Close approach Asteroid Read more»	May 19 2020 Galaxies and Black Holes Grow Together Read more»
May 13 2020 SITELLE Upgrade Read more»	May 6, 2020 COVID-19 Related Changes to Operations Read more»
March 30 2020 New Frontiers in Multi-Messenger Astronomy Read more»	October 03 2019 Cannibalistic Andromeda Read more»
October 01 2019 New Insights into 'Oumuamua Read more»	August 26 2019 New Insights into the Haumea Family Read more»
August 12 2019 CFHT spots an hazardous Near Earth Asteroid during its first night of returning to operations. Read more»	April 22 2019 Omega Centauri's long lost stars found. Read more»
April 04 2019 VESTIGE Traces M87 Ionized Gas Read more»	March 28 2019 Hawai'i Team Catches Asteroid As It Self-Destructs Read more»
October 08 2018 A PRISTINE Star Read more»	July 16 2018 Astronomers find a Famous Exoplanet's Doppelgänger Read more»
June 27 2018 Is 'Oumuamua really a comet? Read more»	May 23 2018 First light for SPIRou! Read more»
May 15 2018 SITELLE reveals the complexity of the nebula in NGC 1275 Read more»	February 4 2018 Widespread galactic cannibalism in Stephan's Quintet revealed by CFHT. Read more»
January 29 2018 SPIRou arrives at CFHT. Read more»	January 09 2018 Finding Extragalactic Supermassive Black Holes using AGN reverberation. Read more»
December 01 2017 SPIRou on its way to CFHT! Read more»	November 20 2017 Haleakala and Maunakea Observatories team up to observe a visitor from outside the Solar System. Read more»
October 19 2017 Knowledge of interstellar dust questioned with WIRCam and Herschel observations. Read more»	September 11 2017 Rocky Planet Engulfment Explains Stellar Odd Couple Read more»
August 17 2017 A high velocity White Dwarf is thought to have survived a Supernova event. Read more»	June 05 2017 Limits seperating stars from Brown Dwarfs found. Read more»
April 18 2017 Massive exoplanet discovered using gravitational microlensing. Read more»	April 12 2017 Waterloo astronomers use CFHT to capture the first image of a Dark Matter Bridge. Read more»
April 04 2017 New clues about the early evolution of the Solar System revealed with simultaneous observations on Maunakea. Read more»	March 17 2017 Meridional wind on Venus detected for the first time in both hemispheres Read more»
February 07 2017 Laurent Drissen wins the NSERC Synergy award for Innovation. Read more»	January 26 2017 A precise and independant determination of the Hubble constant. Read more»
October 05 2016 A new look at the largest known disk galaxy. Read more»	July 12 2016 Structure of diffuse ISM revealed to unprecedented details. Read more»
July 11 2016 A new Dwarf Planet discovered with CFHT. Read more»	June 20 2016 The journal 'Nature' highlights the discovery of the young hot Jupiter. Read more»
April 29 2016 Unique Fragment from Earth’s Formation Returns after Billions of Years of Cold Storage Read more»	February 26 2016 Hawaii's leading observatories launch Maunakea Scholars Program. Read more»
February 08 2016 Spectacular tails of ionized gas found in NGC 4569. Read more»	October 15 2015 First discovery of a magnetic delta Scuti star. Read more»
October 12 2015 The CFHT call for the 2017-2019 Large Programs is now open. Read more»	September 11 2015 Discovery of two massive stars with a magnetic field in a binary system Read more»
September 10 2015 CFHT, Keck Observatories, Hubble and Spitzer find a Galaxy Cluster with a Vibrant Heart Read more»	September 09 2015 Using ESPaDOnS, the Matysse team reports the preliminary evidence that a hot Jupiter orbits a 2My star of Taurus... Read more»
July 10 2015 CFHT data helps New Horizons navigate toward Pluto. Read more»	June 30 2015 The call for Letters of Intent for the 2017 - 2019 round of Large Programs is now open Read more»
May 26 2015 Faint galaxies hiding in the Virgo Cluster Read more»	May 06 2015 A joint presentation between the the Hawaii astronomy community and those opposed to the construction of the TMT Read more»
April 10 2015 Université Laval and ABB deliver a unique instrument for astronomy Read more»	January 20 2015 MegaCam scattering problem solved. Read more»
November 12 2014 First observations of the surface of objects from the Oort cloud. Read more»	October 21 2014 NAOC signs new collaboration agreement with CFHT. Read more»
September 14 2014 The new MegaCam filters are available on a shared risk basis for 2015A. Read more»	July 17 2014 Fingerprinting the formation of giant planets Read more»
July 15 2014 Large number of Dark Matter peaks found using Gravitational Lensing. Read more»	June 14 2014 Archival research using CFHT images reveals a missing link in galaxy evolution. Read more»
May 13 2014 Announcing the Launch of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) Project Office. Read more»	May 13 2014 A team led by Université de Montréal has discovered a new planet 155 light years from Earth. Read more»
November 04 2013 SPIRou: Unveil new habitable worlds and study the birth of stars and planets. Read more»	October 22 2013 Results of CFHT's Announcement of Opportunity for New Instrumentation and Upgrades Read more»
October 09 2013 An exotic free-floating planet found by an international team of astronomers will help resolve Exoplanets mystery. Read more»	September 30 2013 CFHT's call for proposals for the 2014A semester is now closed. Read more»
August 29 2013 Using MegaCam on CFHT, a Canadian-French team of astronomers found the first trojan companion to Uranus. Read more»	August 09 2013 ADASS XXIII - Waikoloa, Hawaii ~ September 29 - October 3, 2013 Read more»
April 10 2013 Discovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild Read more»	January 27 2013 Call for New Instrumentation at CFHT Read more»
December 18 2012 Board Statement on CFHT Future Development Read more»	May 6 2013 CFHT Users' Meeting 6-8 May 2013 Campbell River, Vancouver Island, Canada Read more»
March 12 2013 An unprecedented view of the large-scale structures in the Universe unveiled by VIPERS Read more»	March 11 2013 An International team has observed an unexpected change of direction of the magnetic field of HD190073. Read more»
March 09 2013 CFHT is now accepting proposals for the semester 2013B. Read more»	January 11 2013 Observations are affected by the January 5 2013 shutter failure. Read more»
January 03 2013 A vast rotating disk of dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda galaxy Read more»	December 05 2012 A bright green object in MegaCam images lead to the identification of a new class of Galaxy. Read more»
November 16 2012 A team from Lowell Observatory used ESPaDOnS to identify nearby stars that could potentially harbor exoplanets. Read more»	November 14 2012 ESO and CFHT have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through space without a parent star. Read more»
November 13 2012 A newly identified separate star cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster Read more»	November 02 2012 An international team of Astronomers use the CFHTLS to detect the farthest Superluminous Supernova. Read more»
October 26 2012 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Reveals Dark Secrets of the Universe Read more»	October 16 2012 Hubble and Mauna Kea telescopes team up for the first 3D study of a 60 million light-years long Dark Matter filament. Read more»
October 02 2012 CFHT announces the ngCFHT Workshop, 27-29 March 2013, Hilo, Hawaii. Read more»	September 25 2012 Come and learn while working out during the Solar System Walk Saturday June 29 from 10 am to 2 pm. Read more»
September 19 2012 Come observe the Moon on the CFHT front lawn in Waimea on Sep 22, 7pm-9pm, for the International Observe the Moon Night. Read more»	September 11 2012 In collaboration with HET, CFHT measures the strongest ever magnetic field around a massive star. Read more»
June 24 2012 Four new large programs were just accepted at CFHT. These will be observed during the 2013A to 2016B semesters. Read more»	June 20 2012 After 67 days of hard work, the Observatory was released for normal operations today at 14:10. Read more»
June 5 2012 With CFHT's help, UBC Researchers unveil Jupiter's smallest known moon Read more»	May 28 2012 Join us to observe safely the upcoming transit of Venus from 12:10 to 6:44 pm on June 5th! Read more»
April 30 2012 New CFHT Executive Director Read more»	April 27 2012 A very faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way Read more»
April 16 2012 On the morning of Saturday April 14, CFHT experienced a major failure of one of the dome shutter drives. Read more»	March 02 2012 Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation Read more»
January 09 2012 Astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed. Read more»	July 27 2011 Earth's first Trojan Asteroid discovered Read more»
July 21 2011 Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought? Read more»	July 05 2011 A bubble-like burst of light captured on two Hawaii telescopes last week likely has a terrestrial origin. Read more»
March 24 2011 CFHT, ESO, and Keck team up to find a candidate for coldest "star" Read more»	January 12 2011 CFHT releases a new low-light webcam mounted on the catwalk. Read more»
November 30 2010 From the front lawn of CFHT Headquarters, you will see the moons of Jupiter, the heart of Andromeda, the Orion Nebula, and much more... Read more»	August 25 2010 The 2011A proposals season is open! Deadline for submission: September 23, 24:00UTC Read more»
June 30 2010 The mysterious Leo giant gas ring explained by a billion year old collision between two galaxies Read more»	May 22 2010 The CFHT Users' Meeting will be held in Taipei (Taiwan) Nov 16-18, 2010. You can register now! Read more»
December 9 2009 CFHT celebrates its 30th Birthday with a 370 Megapixel image, an illustrated essay and 2 new wallpapers Read more»	October 22 2009 UKIRT, CFHT, and Chandra team up to unveil what could be the most distant galaxy cluster ever Read more»
September 15 2009 Mini-Comets Lit up 17P/Holmes During Mega-Outburst Read more»	September 4 2009 Andromeda caught devouring another galaxy Read more»
July 9 2009 Most distant supernovae found in the CFHT Legacy Survey Read more»	July 9 2009 Chandra and CFHT team up for a spectacular image of the Stephan's Quintet Read more»
April 2 2009 CFHT honored by Canadian stamp for the International Year of Astronomy Read more»

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