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Fierce Winds Quench Intense Star Formation in a Very Distant Galaxy

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Dr. Manuel Aravena from the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP detected with a team of astronomers the most-distant galactic “wind” of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old. The paper, published in Science, is summarised in the ALMA press release below. Astronomers (including Manuel Aravena from the Núcleo de Astronomía), using ALMA, …

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Honorable mention at the Thesis Prize of Univ. São Paulo for high presicion stellar spectroscopy

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The PhD work on chemical abundances of solar twins of Dr. Marcelo Tucci Maia from the Astronomy Nucleus UDP was honoured at the Thesis Prize 2018 of Universidad of São Paulo, Brazil. Marcelo Tucci Maia is a post-doc member of the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP since March 2018 and is funded by the ESO-Chile joint …

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Chilean women in Science

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Dr. Paula Jofre from the Astronomy Nucleus explains the Chilean Academy of Sciences about her new idea of using evolutionary trees to reconstruct the history of the Galaxy using chemical abundances of stars as DNA. Evolutionary tree of 22 stars in the solar vicinity. The different branches are attributed to different families. The sun is …

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Chilean Accessible Astronomy on IAU Inspiring Stars Exhibition

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Inspiring Stars is the world exhibition on Accessible Astronomy gathering at IAU General Assembly at Vienna, on August 22nd 2018. Many Chilean institutions have been cooperating to be part of this initiative and bring their accessible astronomical experiences for hearing and visually impaired people to the exhibition. Astronomy For All Started under the clear Chilean night sky, …

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SPHERE performance permits many kinds of challenges, from measuring astrometric microlensing to image very faint planets

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Alice Zurlo from the Astronomy Nucleus of UDP shows how with  SPHERE we can learn more about exoplanets. on-sky movement of Proxima Centauri with respect to background stars The gravitational mass of Proxima Centauri measured with SPHERE from a microlensing event Proxima Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor, is the subject of many attentions since the …

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ALMA gives 125.7 hours to the Astronomy Nucleus to understand how the youngest planets and the oldest galaxies form.

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Members of Astronomy Nucleus applied with their research projects for using one of the largest radiotelescopest of the World. Credit: C. Padilla – ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Researchers of the Astronomy Nucleous UDP obtained 125.7 hours for using the for using the ALMA telescope for their research. The telescope gives 400 hours to chilean institutions. The astronomers …

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El VLT de ESO capta la primera imagen confirmada de un planeta recién nacido

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SPHERE, un instrumento buscador de planetas instalado en el VLT (Very Large Telescope) de ESO, ha captado la primera imagen confirmada de un planeta formándose en el polvoriento disco que rodea a una estrella joven. El joven planeta está haciéndose camino a través del disco primordial de gas y polvo que rodea a la joven …

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Ciclo Charlas y Noches de Telescopio 2do semestre 2018

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Este segundo semestre del 2018 vuelve el ciclo Charlas y Noches de Telescopio con 3 destacadas astrónomas: El martes 14 de agosto Manuela Zoccali, Directora del Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica – Millennium Institute of Astrophysics MAS y astrónoma del Instituto de Astrofísica UC nos presentará la charla “Explorando nuestro hogar, la Vía Láctea”. El miércoles 12 de septiembre Paulina Troncoso , miembro de la …

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