The Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM, Campus Morelia, invites its Astronomy Fridays for the first semester of 2023. In this cycle, academics from IRyA share general public talks on various astronomical topics (in Spanish), and the public can also observe the sky with telescopes with the support of IRyA graduate students.

Using high-resolution observations with e-MERLIN and the VLA, researchers at IRyA led by Adriana Rodríguez-Kamenetzky resolved the Serpens radio jet, detecting motions on scales less than 100 astronomical units (au).

There are possibly four or maybe even five stars at the heart of the Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132. An international team of almost 70 astronomers, led by Orsola De Marco of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, analyzed 10 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detailed observations of this nebula, in which two stars can be seen, and modeled how the central star could produce the observed intricate shapes.

Dr. Omaira González-Martín from the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM Campus Morelia will receive the 2022 Marcos Moshinsky research professorship, awarded annually by the Institute of Physics at UNAM and the Marcos Moshinsky Foundation to young researchers from the areas of physics, mathematics and chemical-biological sciences to develop a research project in their areas of interest.

The UNAM will participate in a project to build the largest radio telescope in the world. It will consist of more than 240 antennas, distributed in the USA and Mexico.