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 …
Galaxies are cooking on gas. More specifically, the molecular gas in galaxies is the fuel for star formation, so measuring how much of it was present in the high-redshift universe is an important step for understanding galaxy evolution. In his first first-author paper, our PhD student Manuel Solimano investigated the molecular gas content of four …
PhD student Manuel Solimano gets a paper accepted in A&A! Read More »
La iniciativa denominada “CRISTAL” contará con cerca de 150 horas, buscando revelar cómo son algunas de las galaxias más distantes y tempranas conocidas y cómo éstas evolucionaron en las que se ven en el universo local. El observatorio ALMA otorgó cerca de 150 horas de observación al proyecto CRISTAL, la primera iniciativa liderada desde Chile …
Pursuing science is possible by a combination of several factors, and so a complex set of skills are needed. After scientists are acquainted with the state-of-the-art in their field of interest and learn to become fearless about figuring out how to solve the unsolved problems, they should be able to have some skills in programming …
[:en]Super-massive black holes (SMBHs), that is black holes with at least one million times the mass of the Sun, are typically found at the center of galaxies. While black holes are, by definition, the darkest regions of the Universe as light cannot escape their gravity, they can paradoxically also be the most luminous. When SMBHs …
¡Acompáñanos a entrenar nuestro oído para la Sonificación de imágenes! El viernes 30/07/21 a las 16:30 hrs de Chile tuvimos una sesión especial para el Taller de Astronomía Inclusiva online con la Biblioteca Central para Ciegos, donde revisamos los principios de las técnicas de Sonificación, y entrenamos el oído para relacionar lo que escuchamos con …
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Observaciones EN VIVO en modo remoto, con el telescopio MAS500 de 50 cm, desde los cielos oscuros de la IV Región, Chile. Acompáñanos a OBSERVAR y ESCUCHAR galaxias y nebulosas, pues esta vez contaremos con con #Sonificación de las imágenes que obtengamos en vivo, gracias al software Afterglow Access del proyecto IDATA. Vive la experiencia de ser astrónomo/a …
Noches de Telescopio en Tiempo Real con Sonificación. Read More »
The Ph.D. program in Astrophysics at Universidad Diego Portales is pleased to announce the start of the application process for the academic year 2023 (https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/093bd3fb). The program is offered by UDP’s Astronomy Nucleus, which is characterised by active faculty and an international student body. The Ph.D. program is 4 years long, and students are expected …
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[:en]A few months ago, the Nucleus of Astronomy of the Diego Portales University School of Engineering was the recipient of an ALMA-ANID fund for two years to make the project \\\”Designing engaging educational resources for primary and secondary schools: Astronomy Puzzles\\\” a reality. The aim of this project is to create fun teaching resources about …