Miriam Peña Cárdenas

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Miriam del Carmen Peña Cárdenas is a Chilean astronomer and cosmochemist whose research includes the chemical composition of interstellar clouds including H II regions and the planetary nebulae surrounding Wolf–Rayet stars. She is a professor and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the UNAM Institute of Astronomy.[1]

Peña began her university studies in Chile, studying engineering,[2] but moved to the National Autonomous University of Mexico to complete her bachelor's degree, and remained there for her graduate studies.[1]

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