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  • Planets have life: IRyA’s Astronomy Fridays
    2026/04/22

    Planets have life; yes, you read that right. Well, it is more like planets have a life: they are born, grow, and live around their star, sometimes for a very long time and sometimes not so long. And sometimes planets die too. But there could also be life on planets. What might this life be like? Where is it? Have we found it yet?

  • IRyA and the Nuevo Laredo Technological University sign agreements for the ngVLA
    2026/04/06

    Academic collaboration is vital for the development of science, technology, and innovation in Mexico. Therefore, on March 25, 2026, representatives from UNAM Morelia and the Technological University of Nuevo Laredo (UTNL) signed two agreements.

  • New book written at IRyA, a global reference in star formation
    2026/02/27

    A new specialized book could become a global reference for the field of star formation. Written by Enrique Vázquez Semadeni, a researcher at UNAM Morelia, the book explores how gas flows in our galaxy and how this leads to the birth of new stars.

Latest publication

  • Decoupling the AGN outflow and star-forming disc kinematics in the nuclear region of NGC 7582 with JWST NIRSpec and MIRI/MRS
    Veenema, Oscar; Thatte, Niranjan; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; García-Bernete, Ismael; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Pereira-Santaella, Miguel; Audibert, Anelise; Bellocchi, Enrica; Bunker, Andrew J.; Campbell, Steph; Combes, Francoise; Davies, Richard I.; Donnan, Fergus R.; García-Burillo, Santiago; Gonzalez Martin, Omaira; Hermosa Muñoz, Laura; Hicks, Erin K. S.; Hoenig, Sebastian F.; Labiano, Alvaro; Levenson, Nancy A.;
    2026/06, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, stag785

  • Next Colloquium

    2026/05/14
    Yenifer Angarita, Chalmers University of Technology
    Host: Roberto Galván
    Polarization tomography is a valuable method for investigating the structure of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. Starlight becomes linearly polarized as it passes through elongated dust grains aligned by interstellar magnetic fields. By combining polarization measurements with stellar distances, we can disentangle contributions from multiple intervening structures and reconstruct the plane-of-sky magnetic field at different depths along the line of sight. In this work, statistical decomposition techniques are applied to multi-band polarization data to identify distinct polarizing components associated with separate dust layers. The results demonstrate that polarization tomography can successfully isolate nearby and distant magnetic field contributions and reveal variations in field properties across large-scale structures.

    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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