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  • Morelia hosts ngVLA international science conference
    2024/11/11

    This week, Morelia hosts 135 radio astronomy experts from institutions in 17 countries around the world, who will discuss the new science that can be performed with the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA), a new generation observatory to be built in the coming years, with the participation of the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM Campus Morelia.

  • 4000 people enjoyed the star party during “Noche de las Estrellas” 2024 in Morelia
    2024/11/11

    In downtown Morelia, some 4000 people enjoyed the star party during “Noche de las Estrellas 2024” on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, November 9.

  • Old galaxy caught forming new stars, and it could do it again
    2024/10/31

    The galaxy NGC 1386 is forming new stars in a ring around its center, despite being an old galaxy with no material to form new stars there. New radio observations suggest that the galaxy takes material from its outer regions to form stars near its center on a recurring basis.

Latest publication

  • Accurate proper motions of the protostellar binary system L 1551 IRS 5
    Hernández Garnica, Ricardo; Loinard, Laurent; Duran, Aurora; Ordóñez-Toro, Jazmín; Chandler, Claire J.; Dzib, Sergio A.; Cuello, Nicolás; Ménard, François; Maureira, María José; Bianchi, Eleonora; Cruz-Sáenz de Miera, Fernando; Carrasco-González, Carlos; Rodríguez, Luis F.; Torres, Rosa M.; Raga, Alejandro C.; Lim, Jeremy; Feeney-Johansson, Anton
    2024/12, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 2948

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    #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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