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 …
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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! Leer más »
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 …
Entrenando el oído para la Sonificación de imágenes Leer más »