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  • UNAM hosts meeting of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration
    2024/05/18

    UNAM will host the annual meeting of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration from May 19 to 24 in Mexico City. This gathering of around 100 researchers and students from 15 countries will take place at the Postgraduate Unit at UNAM’s main campus, University City.

  • Astronomers use the same evidence to justify opposite conclusions… in 1652 New Spain
    2024/05/07

    Three observers from New Spain recorded the observation of a comet in 1652. Two of them, Juan Ruíz and Gabriel López de Bonilla, incorrectly concluded that it was sublunar, and the third, Fray Diego Rodríguez, that it was superlunar. But none seem to have based their conclusions on their own observations, but on their previous scholastic beliefs.

  • Over 20,000 people enjoyed the solar eclipse in Morelia
    2024/04/09

    Thousands of people participated with great enthusiasm and excitement in the three venues that the Eclipses Michoacán Local Committee prepared for the observation of the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. There were 35 telescopes, 4,000 eclipse glasses and 200 volunteers among the three venues, which served more than 20,000 people in total who came to witness this beautiful natural phenomenon.

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  • Direct Observational Evidence of Multi-epoch Massive Star Formation in G24.47+0.49
    Saha, Anindya; Tej, Anandmayee; Liu, Hong-Li; Liu, Tie; Garay, Guido; Goldsmith, Paul F.; Lee, Chang Won; He, Jinhua; Juvela, Mika; Bronfman, Leonardo; Baug, Tapas; Vázquez-Semadeni, Enrique; Sanhueza, Patricio; Li, Shanghuo; Chibueze, James O.; Bhadari, N. K.; Dewangan, Lokesh K.; Das, Swagat Ranjan; Xu, Feng-Wei; Issac, Namitha;
    2024/08, The Astrophysical Journal, 970, L40

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