This exhibition brings together the work of students from the General Education (GE) course on Astronomy and Literature, who explored complex scientific concepts to transform and explain them through poetic language. The course assessment is materialized in this series of inclusive astronomy cards: each one presents an astronomical concept labeled in Braille, accompanied by a […]
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Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 16 Sep 2026 An international team led by Andrea Bernardi, a YEMS PhD student at Universidad Diego Portales, has confirmed Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date. With a mass similar to Jupiter’s and an age of less than one million years, the planet remains embedded
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The research groups at UDP´s Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos (IEA) will get new data to learn more from planetary systems to distant galaxies. Planetary Systems Prof. Lucas Cieza is a co-PI of one of the Large Programs recently approved by ALMA for Cycle-13. The project, called “PEBBLES” (Protosolar-system Environments with BroadBand Look at Evolution of
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Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger
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Por Isidora Fariña, estudiante de periodismo UDP, para el curso de Estudios Generales UDP “Estrellas de la Vía Láctea” Dictado por la astrónoma Paula Jofré.
El 11 de Marzo del 2026 nuestro querido programa de doctorado en astrofísica fue acreditado en su tercer período, esta vez por 6 años, duplicando el tiempo las acreditaciones anteriores. La acreditación es un certificado que todo programa de educación superior debe obtener para existir formalmente. Con ese certificado pueden estudiantes, por ejemplo, ser eligibles
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¿Cómo explicar qué son y cómo se producen las Fases Lunares a alguien que no puede ver?. En la construcción del modelo táctil propuesto -usando la superficie interior de un paraguas burbuja- se busca conectar la experiencia aparentemente bidimensional de las fases lunares con la realidad tridimensional de los movimientos celestes, aclarando aspectos importantes sobre
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Since its discovery in July 2025, the interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS has sparked excitement among the cometary research groups across the world. Here, at the IEA, our astronomers have begun tracking the interstellar object with the OMA500 telescope — a 50cm optical telescope located at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile’s Rio Hurtado Valley. The
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We are happy to announce that our researchers at the IEA have been awarded observing time as PIs for ALMA Cycle 12.
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Have you ever found yourself wondering how galaxies — those cosmic whirlpools of stars, gas, and dust — form and grow over time? Then you’re in the right place, and your curiosity is well-founded. Galaxies come in a variety of shapes, with their own personalities, just as humans do, and astronomers have caught different processes
UNLOCKING GALAXY GROWTH: A TALE OF TWO COMPONENTS – Keerthana Jegatheesan PhD Thesis Read More »