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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?

Latest publication

  • The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Investigating Thermal Feedback of Massive Protostars in Hot Molecular Cores
    Meng, Dezhao; Liu, Tie; Esimbek, Jarken; Qiu, Yisheng; Ge, Jixing; Evans, Neal J., II; Palau, Aina; Garay, Guido; Goldsmith, Paul F.; Xu, Fengwei; Dib, Sami; Lee, Jeong-Eun; Stutz, Amelia M.; Tang, Xindi; Mai, Xiaofeng; Zhang, Yan-Kun; Jiao, Wenyu; Zou, Jia-Hang; Bronfman, Leonardo; Das, Swagat R.;
    2026/07, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 285, 29

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    2026/07/30
    Aina Palau, IRyA
    Host: Ramandeep Gill
    T.B.D.
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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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