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  • “Weighing” the young stars hidden in Orion
    2026/06/30

    Very young stars lurk unseen in clouds of gas and dust in space, where they were born. In the direction of the Orion constellation, there is a vast cloud complex crucial for truly understanding the life and death of stars.

  • Jazmín Ordóñez Toro, Honourable Mention in IAU PhD Prizes
    2026/06/26

    Norida Jazmín Ordóñez Toro has been awarded an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Division A (Fundamental Astronomy) PhD Prize Honourable Mention. She concluded her PhD in astrophysics at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM Morelia in 2025.

  • Comets are like messages in bottles: IRyA’s Astronomy Fridays
    2026/05/28

    Comets like Halley's are like messages our solar system left us when it was a baby. Even the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a message sent by a planetary system that was born long ago and very, very far from Earth. What do they tell us? How are planets born around stars?

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  • The emergence of the faint nature of low surface brightness galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation
    Pérez-Montaño, Luis Enrique; Cervantes Sodi, Bernardo; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Stoppacher, Doris; Cao, Tian-Wen
    2026/07, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, stag1127

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    2026/07/30
    Aina Palau, IRyA
    Host: Ramandeep Gill
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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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