31-03-2025
UNAM Looks into the Universe. The Exploration of the Cosmos with Sloan Sky Digital Survey
Mexico has played a fundamental
URLrole in international astronomy
since its earliest times. It’s no
accident that a kind of nebula
formed from jets of gas ejected
by newborn stars was named a Herbig-Haro object.
Mexican astronomer Guillermo Haro identified
them from Mexican land. It is no coincidence either
that several planetary nebulae have been catalogued
with the initials of Mexican astronomers Manuel
Peimbert and Rafael Costero. And it’s no matter
of chance either that Mexican astronomer Silvia
Torres Castilleja presided over the International
Astronomical Union—the largest and most
influential organization of astronomers in the world.
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