The international conference “Follow the Monarchs: A Journey to Explore the Cosmos at (Sub)milliarcsecond Scales with the ngVLA” will benefit from a financial support of $65,000 Mexican pesos from the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Michoacán (ICTI). An agreement for this was signed between the ICTI and the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) on August 27.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, working together with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has conducted test observations achieving the highest-resolution ever obtained from the surface of the Earth, by detecting light from the centers of distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent to a wavelength of 0.87 mm. The new detections were published today in The Astronomical Journal.

UNAM will host the annual meeting of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration from May 19 to 24 in Mexico City. This gathering of around 100 researchers and students from 15 countries will take place at the Postgraduate Unit at UNAM’s main campus, University City.

Three observers from New Spain recorded the observation of a comet in 1652. Two of them, Juan Ruíz and Gabriel López de Bonilla, incorrectly concluded that it was sublunar, and the third, Fray Diego Rodríguez, that it was superlunar. But none seem to have based their conclusions on their own observations, but on their previous scholastic beliefs.

Thousands of people participated with great enthusiasm and excitement in the three venues that the Eclipses Michoacán Local Committee prepared for the observation of the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. There were 35 telescopes, 4,000 eclipse glasses and 200 volunteers among the three venues, which served more than 20,000 people in total who came to witness this beautiful natural phenomenon.