Skip to content

Keywords: Astronomy

Encuentra las noticias producidas en la UC sobre astronomía.


Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)

What Was the Universe Like in Its Infancy? Most Accurate Map of the Early Cosmos Released

An international team of researchers from over 60 institutions, and with the participation of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), was able to produce the…

: An exoplanet transiting a young, highly active star

New Study May Shed Light on Planet Formation

An international team of astronomers—including scientists from various institutions and UC Chile professor and CATA researcher Gijs Mulders—has published a…

UC Chile Joins Space Mission to Discover Exoplanets

The UC Chile Center for Astro Engineering has developed an advanced astronomical instrument, placing Chile at the forefront of the global search for Earth-like…

Mapping the Milky Way: UC Chile's New Catalog Identifies 5,000 Ancient Stars

Research conducted by Astrophysics PhD candidate and CATA astronomer Julio Olivares, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, has led to the creation of a…

Primordial Black Holes

Young CATA Astronomer Publishes Breakthrough in the Study of Primordial Black Holes

This research aims to investigate the incidence of primordial black holes in dark matter formation and their potential role in star formation.

View of the ATLAS detector at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), showcasing intricate engineering and scale.

UC Chile Joins the Major Leagues of World Science

The efforts of UC Chile’s researchers have transcended national borders, reaching the global scientific stage through international partnerships and alliances…

Matilde Gaete, a UC Chile engineering student, participates in a flight simulator as part of her aerospace training.

UC Chile Student Aspires to Become the First Chilean Female Astronaut

Matilde Gaete, a UC Chile student was selected for prestigious astronaut training at the International Academy of Astronautics, Florida, USA.

Image of the supercomputer installed at the UC Institute of Astrophysics.

New Supercomputer Bolsters Chile's Astronomical Observation Capabilities

Funded by the Center of Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (CATA, as per its Spanish acronym) and installed at the UC Institute of…

Image of a galaxy in formation in yellow and orange colors with a black and bluish background.

How Were Galaxies Formed?

UC Institute of Astrophysics researchers are participating in the LAGER project, an international initiative aimed at discovering the origins of galaxies.

Technology transfer and links within the industry will be the focus during the second phase of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies. (Photo: CATA)

Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies, the future of Astronomic Science

The main objective of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies is to make the most of the new telescopes that have been built and…

Picture of a computational model of the antennas in the desert.

CTA-South Observatory: At the Frontier between Astronomy and Physics

The new CTA-South Observatory will be located in the middle of the Atacama Desert. It will be the first window to the high-energy universe installed in Chile…

Golden Webinars poster

Golden Webinars: The astrophysics revolution on YouTube

An initiative that began to exchange ideas with other scientists has become a world astrophysics event. It is an opportunity to learn for free about the…