Northern Lights Astronomy
The Bentway Studio
55 Fort York Blvd, Toronto, ON M5V 0R6, Canada
Ontario
43.6397479
-79.3965687
Northern Lights Astronomy
The Bentway’s winter installation, The Gateway, celebrates the brilliance of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, which are at their most vibrant in the depths of winter.
Join astronomer Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton for an evening of learning and traditional oral storytelling rooted in her Innu culture. A team of student astronomers from the University of Toronto will lead a series of activities around this natural phenomenon, featuring light demonstrations to simulate the atmospheric glow of an aurora, alongside scientific explanation.
This presentation aims to deepen our connection and understanding of an extraordinary celestial phenomenon that has inspired us to look to the night sky for millennia.
Please Note:
This event takes place indoors.
Please arrive on time.
Youth under age 16 must be accompanied by a caregiver.
Accessible and all-gender washrooms are available on site.
This site is wheelchair accessible.
About the Facilitators
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is a new faculty member at the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She has six years of experience working as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory. She received her diploma from Université Laval by studying regions of star formation in spiral galaxies and helping with the development of two Fourier Transform Spectro-imagers, SpIOMM and SITELLE.
Students from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics: Adaeze Ibik, Eesha Das Gupta, Daniella Morrone.
For more information on Winter events and programs at The Bentway, visit thebentway.ca.
