In search of the lost stars of the Milky Way

LT Board In this new episode, Francisco Aravena talks with Dante Minniti, an academic at the Institute of Astrophysics of Universidad Andrés Bello, principal investigator at the Center for Astrophysics and Related Technologies (CATA), and one of the ten scientists who worked on the Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's most modern space telescope. Comments Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, has about 600 globular clusters: swarms of hundreds of thousands of stars, some almost as old as the universe. The Milky Way, on the other hand, although it is similar in size to Andromeda, has only 220 clusters identified so far. Where are the missing ones? They are probably hidden behind the dust at the center of our galaxy, but we don't know that yet. That is why the astronomer Dante Minniti, an academic at the Institute of Astrophysics of Universidad Andrés Bello and principal investigator at the Center for Astrophysics and Related Technologies (CATA), has spent years searching for those clusters. He also led the most complete infrared map of the Milky Way, and this year, in August, he watched the Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's most modern space telescope, lift off in Florida, on which he worked for ten years. We invite you to relive the interview conducted by journalist Francisco Aravena in this new chapter of Mentes en movimiento. More about: LT Board Mentes en movimiento Science and technology Board astrophysics milky way NASA branded-ltboard