[3] During her career she has written two books about astronomy: Desde Chile un cielo estrellado: lecturas para fascinarse con la astronomía (2013)[4] and Hijos de las Estrellas (2017).

[7] In 1975, upon completing her thesis work with Martin Schwarzschild,[8] Ruiz became the first woman to obtain a PhD in astrophysics at Princeton University.

[9] In 1997 she became the first woman in Chile's history to receive the country's National Prize for Exact Sciences.

[9] She held a postdoctoral research position at Trieste Observatory and worked for two years at UNAM, the Institute of Astronomy in Mexico.

This structure is located in the constellation named Hydra which sits approximately about 61 light years from planet Earth.