The Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA), or Institute for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics, at UNAM Campus Morelia, invites people to attend its public talks cycle Viernes de Astronomía, or Astronomy Fridays. In this cycle, IRyA’s researchers will share talks in Spanish directed to the general public about diverse astronomy topics.

A team of astronomers studied the densest regions of the molecular gas clouds in our galaxy, known as cores, and found that the way these cores start collapsing to form new stars is different from what was previously thought.

An international team of astronomers studied the gas jet expelled from the center of a giant galaxy and found a magnetic field in the form of a corkscrew that funnels and shapes the jet material to a distance of nearly 3,300 light-years. This is the furthest distance from the jet origin that a magnetic field has yet been detected.

An international team of astronomers studied the X-ray light coming from a white dwarf star and found that it has a very close companion object, probably a planet, that is being torn apart by the interaction with its star.

During 2021 four researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) at UNAM, Campus Morelia, received national an international awards for their careers and academic work. The awardees highlighted that these prizes are an incentive to continue with their research and also help motivate younger generations to pursue basic science in Mexico, even with the difficulties that they may face in our country.