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  • Are galaxies like people?
    2026/09/25

    Countless stars, cosmic dust, abundant gas, and maybe something else? Galaxies contain all of this. Yet, they are not static; they do not simply float in space, undisturbed. Since their formation billions of years ago, they have undergone significant changes, sometimes on their own, and at other times influenced by other galaxies… something similar to people.

  • Black holes, galaxies, constellations and telescopes on Astronomy Fridays
    2026/08/26

    Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners, as some people claim. Nor are they space drains where everything simply disappears. So, what are they? What happens to things that get too close to them? The answers cannot be squeezed into the few seconds of a short social media video.

  • IRyA invites the public to observe the lunar eclipse with telescopes
    2026/08/26

    On the night of Thursday, August 27, we will witness a nearly total lunar eclipse, during which the Moon may take on reddish hues—a phenomenon popularly known as a "blood Moon."

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  • Earliest simultaneous multicolour optical observations of GRB 230328B: from 41 s to the host-galaxy identification
    Komesh, T.; Pozanenko, A.; Pankov, N.; Volnova, A.; Minaev, P.; Gill, R.; Berdikhan, D.; Grossan, B.; Maksut, Z.; Abdullayev, Z.; Belkin, S.; Krugov, M.; Moskvitin, A.; Baigarin, K.; Tursynkan, A.; Klunko, E.; Tatarnikov, A.; Zheltoukhov, S.; Rumyantsev, V.; Volvach, A.;
    2026/10, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 552, stag1595

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    Spotlight on Research

    #1: A dying galaxy triggers the birth of new stars
    2022/01/30

    What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.

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