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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

  • Image plane models for AGN jets at horizon scale
    Gómez-Miller, Brissa; Gammie, Charles; Loinard, Laurent
    2026/05, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, stag566

  • Next Colloquium

    2026/05/07
    Vidhi Ritesh Tailor, Università di Bologna
    Host: Jacopo Fritz
    While represnting only a minor fraction of the interstellar medium (ISM) mass, interstellar dust significantly affects the thermal, chemical, and radiative processes that govern galaxy evolution. By mediating gas cooling, enabling molecule formation, and absorbing and re-emitting stellar radiation in far-infrared and Sub-mm regimes, dust serves as an essential tracer of the physical conditions, offering insights into the interplay of stars, dust and the ISM. With the help of multi-wavelength observations, it is possible to study the different components of the ISM and their relations in a spatially resolved manner across nearby galaxies, on scales of few hundreds to kiloparsecs. In this talk, I present a spatially resolved analysis of dust in spiral galaxies, focusing on two complemetary aspects: dust heating and dust scaling relations. I will show that both young and evolved stellar popluations contribute to dust heating, and examine how dust content related to the gas and metals in the ISM through dust-to-gas and dust-to-metal ratios. These results provide a more complete picture of how dust properties are shaped by both stellar radiation and ISM conditions.

    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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