SpacePlaceCanada

@SpacePlaceCda

A non-profit, multi-disciplinary group of people working to bring a 21st century virtual planetarium for the World and physical planetarium to Toronto.

Toronto spaceplacecanada.ca Joined November 2019

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SpacePlaceCanada @SpacePlaceCda Oct 8

1/2 🚀 From Jules Verne to modern orbital infrastructure: how has science fiction shaped real space exploration?
Join @SpacePlaceCA on Wednesday, Oct 28 at 7 PM EDT for "Our Past Futures in Space." eventbrite.ca/e/our-past-fut…?

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Not convinced we have a problem with satellites ruining our night skies, even before the 100s of thousands more that are planned? This stunning image shows how bad it is, so much so that the photographer was (falsely) accused of using AI to make it.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov…

www.theguardian.com The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand

SpacePlaceCanada @SpacePlaceCda Oct 31

Expecting some green monsters at the door tonight? Well, here's a special green monster astronomers hadn't seen before: a green star. And another that's the reddest ever. Other whacky colours, like purple & pink, are possible too. Happy Halloween! popsci.com/science/first-…

SpacePlaceCanada @SpacePlaceCda Oct 30

Got a second? Well, you won't be getting any extras anymore: leap seconds have become a thing of the past. You won't notice their absence for a while, but one day, there's going to have to be a leap that's a whole lot longer than just a second. cbc.ca/news/world/lea…

www.cbc.ca Our clocks and the Earth are slowly drifting apart — and timekeepers will let it happen | CBC News For more than 50 years, humanity has used "leap seconds" to keep our clocks aligned with the rotation of the Earth. On Thursday, an international time-keeping body in France voted to do away with...

SpacePlaceCanada @SpacePlaceCda Oct 29

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk is taking a walk on the space side today!

Big moment for Canada. Even bigger inspiration for future explorers.

Keep looking up! Check out Space Place Canada’s upcoming events. Link in bio.

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www.cbc.ca Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk conducts his 1st spacewalk | CBC News The International Space Station is roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, moving at roughly 7.66 kilometres per second, and today, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will be whizzing around...