The observatory was built far off the grid, in the heart of rattlesnake country. “Shedded skin,” said University of British Columbia researcher Mark Halpern, holding a rattler’s discarded ...

Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus will soon be home to a $4.4 million astronomical observatory and plaza. The observatory, which is due to be built by August 2014, will house a telescope ...

educators and the public are invited to the observatory to learn about its pioneering role in the field of astrophysics in Canada. Canada's largest radio telescope unveiled in British Columbia ...

British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province ... The university also hosts the Ocean Networks Canada's deep-water seafloor research observatories VENUS and NEPTUNE.

A young, male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) chases an offscreen sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) at Ocean Networks Canada’s NEPTUNE’s Barkley Canyon observatory site off the ...

Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, BC temperature trend for the next 14 Days. Find daytime highs and nighttime lows from TheWeatherNetwork.com.

The astronomical instruments given by Lewis M. Rutherfurd, to the Columbia College Observatory are now being polished, and a few of them are already at the observatory. In a few days the pedestals ...

Vehicles stranded when giant sheets of ice break away from shore ...