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23/08/2026

Astrofísico muestra cómo sacaron tesoro astronómico de Costa Rica y lo vendieron en el extranjero 👇

23/08/2026

De esta forma saquearon un tesoro de Costa Rica 🇨🇷 y lo vendieron en el extranjero 👇

22/08/2026

Un tesoro de 4.560 millones de años cayó en Costa Rica… y el país t...

22/08/2026

Desenterraron bola de piedra de Costa Rica y encontraron un mensaje astronómico 👇

22/08/2026

El meteorito de Aguas Zarcas: cuatro días para salvar un tesoro caído del cielo

La noche del 23 de abril de 2019, un bólido cruzó el cielo de Costa Rica a más de 52.000 kilómetros por hora y estalló sobre San Carlos....

https://skycr.org/2026/08/22/meteorito-aguas-zarcas-cuatro-dias-salvar-tesoro/

El 23 de abril de 2019 cayó en Aguas Zarcas uno de los meteoritos más importantes de las últimas décadas: una condrita carbonácea CM2 que conserva agua mineralizada y aminoácidos anteriores a la Tierra. Costa Rica tuvo apenas cuatro días antes de la lluvia. SKYCR reconstruye la carrera contra...

21/08/2026

Why a black hole’s repeat flares keep fading: the answer was the star’s spin all along

When a star strays close to a supermassive black hole but isn't destroyed outright, it can survive to make repeated passes, flaring each time it swings by....

https://skycr.org/2026/08/21/stellar-spin-repeating-tidal-disruption-flares/

A team at Syracuse University led by Ananya Bandopadhyay has solved a two-year puzzle: why the repeating flares from partial tidal disruption events grow progressively dimmer. The answer is the star's spin — a star already rotating rapidly before its first pass produces the observed fading. That r...

21/08/2026

ALMA finds sulfur around a rare dying supergiant — and a chemical fingerprint once thought unique to Earth’s rocks

Astronomers have uncovered a chemically rich shroud of sulfur-bearing molecules around the rare massive star HD 87643, including the first ever detection of sulfur monoxide and sulfur dioxide around a B[e] supergiant....

https://skycr.org/2026/08/20/alma-sulfur-be-supergiant-hd-87643/

Using ALMA's Atacama Compact Array, a team led by Cristobal Bordiu (INAF Catania) has detected sulfur-bearing molecules around the rare massive star HD 87643 — the first sulfur chemistry ever found around a B[e] supergiant, expanding its known molecular inventory from one molecule to ten. An anoma...

20/08/2026

Para aquellos que siguen mi trabajo.
Pueden leer un poco más en:
https://skycr.org/homer-davilag/
Mi más reciente investigación científica:
https://bit.ly/4xPnxXA
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For those who follow my work:
https://skycr.org/homer-davilag/
My most recent scientific research:
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20/08/2026

Quiero compartir con mis seguidores esta imagen del certificado que me acredita como Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). El documento me ha llegado hace pocos días, tras ser electo el pasado 13 de marzo de 2026, noticia que fue reseñada en medios nacionales.

Fundada en Londres en 1820, la Royal Astronomical Society es una de las sociedades científicas más respetadas del mundo.

Gracias a quienes siguen SKYCR y me acompañan bajo el cielo en cada telescopiada.

Pueden leer un poco más de mi trabajo en:
https://skycr.org/homer-davilag/

Mi más reciente investigación científica:
https://bit.ly/4xPnxXA

Homer Davila Gutierrez, Fras
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Here is the certificate naming me a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). It arrived in Costa Rica just a few days ago, months after my election on 13 March 2026 — a story that made the national news at the time.

The Royal Astronomical Society, founded in London in 1820, stands among the most respected scientific societies in the world.

My thanks to everyone who follows SKYCR and shares the night sky with me at every telescopiada.

You can read more about my work here:
https://skycr.org/homer-davilag

My latest scientific research:
https://bit.ly/4xPnxXA

19/08/2026

Milky Way’s fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have discovered S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way, orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at 25,000 km/s — over 8% of the speed of light — and completing an orbit in just 8.7 years. Published in Nature by the GRAVITY+ collaboration, the star passes close enough to feel the black hole dragging spacetime, making it the first star that could directly measure a supermassive black hole's spin — a key test of Einstein's general relativity....

https://skycr.org/2026/08/19/s301-fastest-star-milky-way-black-hole-spin/

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have discovered S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way, orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at 25,000 km/s — over 8% of the speed of light. Published in Nature by the GRAVITY+ collaboration, the star passes within a...