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 …
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 …
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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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Prepárate para una Noche de Telescopio en Tiempo Real, desde el mismísimo Cerro Tololo Por primera vez nos conectaremos a observaciones astronómicas reales en vivo desde uno de los telescopios más icónicos en nuestro país, el Telescopio Blanco del Observatorio Cerro Tololo (NOIRLab), con un espejo principal de 4 metros de diámetro. Acompañaremos a Paulina …
We are delighted that we made it to the top 1-2 ranked projects to be granted by the Millenium Nucleus initiative to work on new ideas and technologies motivated through astronomy. ERIS https://nucleomilenioeris.cl The Millennium Nucleus ERIS (Evolutionary Reconstruction of the InterStellar medium) will apply one of the principles of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution – …
Lithium, that same element that we find in batteries, is one of the three elements that were created only minutes after the Big Bang, and Claudia Aguilera Gomez, from the Astronomy Nucleus, has spent years investigating the behaviour of this element. It is very scarce, but lithium can be used to understand a variety if …
[:en]While investigating the data of young, distant galaxies observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Yoshinobu Fudamoto from Waseda University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan noticed unexpected emissions coming from seemingly empty regions in space that, a global research team confirmed, came actually from two hitherto undiscovered galaxies heavily obscured by cosmic …