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  • A mysterious object lurks in the heart of the Cat’s Paw Nebula
    2025/05/27

    Vanessa Yanza  from IRyA*, UNAM Morelia, led a team that discovered a mysterious object that could be a huge star running away from its birthplace, or it could also be two young stars with strong winds colliding with each other.

  • This large, young star grows rapidly and in the same way as the small ones
    2025/05/05

    Carlos Carrasco González of IRyA* is part of a research team that captured a large young star “red-handed,” growing rapidly by gathering material from a disk of gas and dust around it, much in the same way that small young stars grow.

  • There are galaxies that shouldn’t exist… or should they?: Astronomy Fridays
    2025/04/24

    The James Webb Space Telescope observed for the first time some very, very distant, yet very massive—that is, very “fat”—galaxies. But at that time, the Universe was very young, so young that these galaxies shouldn't have had time to become so “heavy,” based on what we thought we knew about how galaxies form and the history of the Universe. They were called “impossible galaxies,” but are they really?

Vladimir Escalante

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Research Interests: Atomic and molecular physics applied to astrophysics and geophysics; models, radiative transfer, and physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium.

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Dr. Vladimir Escalante received his undergraduate degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and his PhD from Harvard University. He has been a researcher at the UNAM since 1988.

He is an expert in atomic and molecular physics and constructs photoionization models of planetary nebulae and HII regions around hot stars.

Dr. Escalante has represented the Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics on the Academic Council in the area of physical-mathematical sciences and engineering (CACCFMI) of the UNAM.

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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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