March marks the beginning of the academic year in Chile, and one year ago we were excited about all the activities we had planned for 2020. Our PhD programme grew, the Social Unrest was eased with the hopes of a referendum for a new Constitution, so we could look forward to having seminars, trips and …
A new academic year starts online and with smiles! Read More »
UDP astronomers led high-resolution ALMA survey of protoplanetary disks, obtaining remarkable images which seem to trace the formation of giant extrasolar planets. Even though the Sun and all of its planets were formed 4.5 billion years ago, nature has provided astronomers with natural laboratories where young exoplanets are currently forming, allowing us to observe the …
One of the first students of our Ph.D. program, Dejene Zewdie, has led a investigation on the properties of massive galaxies in the local Universe. This work started during his Master’s studies, in Ethiopia, and continued during 2019 at UDP has now been recently accepted for publication in the prestigious scientific journal Monthly Notices for …
PhD student Dejene Zewdie gets a paper accepted in MNRAS! Read More »
“The sun and other stars are a lot like people: they’re born, they age, and they die. Oh, and they have relatives. That last idea was an insight Paula Jofré, of Diego Portales University in Chile, had along with anthropologist Robert Foley of the University of Cambridge, when the two began musing that stars birthed …
Celebrating that Science done at UDP is revolutioning the field Read More »
Since the creation of the Astronomy Nucleus in 2013 with the hire of the first 4 faculty, we are happy to have assembled a group of 20 members comprised of faculty, postdocs, students, outreach officers and administrators. In particular, we are most importantly happy to have built a serious PhD programm,e with students selected from …
As a research group, we seek instances for enabling scientific discussion through sharing our projects. At the beginning of each term, students are encouraged to share the results of their research projects with the group via presentations. This is important for acquiring soft skills, such as presenting and disseminating results. This also offers an opportunity …
Stellar explosions was the popular subject of research during the stay of MIT students Lulu Russell and Holly Jackson, who the Astronomy Nucleus from UDP had the pleasure to host for a 2 month visit. Both students came to work on short-term projects supported by the MISTI programme. Observing run: Twin 6.5m Magellan telescopes at …
Astro UDP students and post-docs had the chance to organise a trip to Vicuña, one of the small cities located in the beautiful Elqui Valley, located in the North of Chile. On July 2nd, 2019, a total solar eclipse could be seen from there. More than one million people travel to the areas of the …