The first academic semester in Chile had just finished in June. It was a very long semester, with so much work, and we really needed a break. The first week of July, however, promised to be everything but a break: The stellar and galactic astronomy group led by Prof Paula Jofre obtained observing time for …
Manuel Solimano, estudiante de doctorado del Nucleo de Astronomia, UDP Con el desarrollo de los grandes telescopios, se hizo evidente que algunas galaxias, particularmente aquellas que están activamente formando estrellas, están rodeadas por una tenue luz difusa. Esta luz proviene de la línea espectral de Lyman Alfa (Lyα) del hidrógeno, con longitud de onda de …
We’re proud that after working hard towards having a gender balanced team in the Astronomy Nucleus we’ve succeed. It is well documented that the challenge in having a gender balanced team was not about the low numbers of competitive female applicants, but rather about subconscious biases that hamper the academic world. These biases have an …
Texto de la astrónoma Paula Jofré, reconocida por la revista TIME como una de las 100 personas más influyentes del 2019, se presentará el lunes 21 de marzo a las 11:30 en la Biblioteca Nicanor Parra de la UDP. Formulario de Inscripción: https://forms.gle/En6KfFbr1nCTYYnV9 Video explicativo de los propósitos del libro: https://youtu.be/ZF8EQdlHmVE En el marco de …
AstroUDP student Thallis Pessi publishes a paper in ApJ. The paper describes the event SN 2011fh, a peculiar transient similar to the ambiguous SN 2009ip. This event became famous for the difficult in telling whether it was a true core-collapse supernova or an energetic eruption in a massive star. In this paper, we use multiple …
At first it was a challenge of scientific communication, now it is a way of life. Making science accessible to people with disabilities holds a potential that goes beyond social responsibility or empathy. It is also about making diversity an integral part of scientific development, incorporating people full of curiosity with new approaches to face …
El próximo 29 de enero a las 22:00 hrs, en el marco del Festival de poesía y ciencia del estrecho de Magallanes, Ácrux, los lentes del Observatorio El Sauce (Observatorio Mancomunado de Astrofísica, OMA) apuntarán a los objetivos del festival Ácrux: las Nubes de Magallanes, el cúmulo estelar del Joyero, situado en la constelación de …
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The Núcleo de Astronomía of UDP in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics are organizing a conference, geared towards professional astronomers and graduate students in the area of AGN and galaxy evolution. The conference will be held next week, between January 24th and 27th with the participation of over 400 astronomers. Testing the …
Quasars and Galaxies through Cosmic Time Conference Read More »
El Observatorio Mancomunado de Astrofísica (OMA) ya está en funcionamiento en el Observatorio El Sauce, en la Región de Coquimbo. Proveerá acceso a equipamiento de primer nivel para la formación de los futuros científicos que se dedicarán al estudio del Universo. ¿Cómo formar a los nuevos científicos y científicas si los tiempos de telescopio son …
Prof. Paula Jofre from the Astronomy Nucleus publishes her first outreach book entitled “Fosiles del cosmos – descifrando la historia de la Vía Láctea”. This book is motivated by the need to have literature for the General Formation course “Estrellas de la Via Lactea” given by P. Jofre at UDP. The book uses the Gaia …
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