An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of…
Last Friday, the INAF-guided spectrograph Soxs – acronym for Son of X-Shooter – obtained the coveted PAE, or “Preliminary Acceptance in Europe”, from the European Southern Observatory: the instrument has been approved and can now be shipped to the telescope…
From the 17th century “Acta Eruditorum” to meteorological observations including the recording of the 1908 Messina earthquake, there are over two thousand titles of periodicals preserved in the library of the Brera Astronomical Observatory of the INAF, in Milan. The…
In response to the invitation of the INAF CUG to participate in the initiative: “A touch of red against violence against women” we created three “installations” in the months of October-November: two benches (one very old, refurbished) and a wooden…
Next Monday, the National Institute of Astrophysics will contribute to the fight against gender violence by proposing initiatives, moments of aggregation and reflection in various locations throughout Italy on the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination…
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000…
The Merate branch of the INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing an evening to observe the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet – October 16 from 6 to 9 pm – Via Emilio Bianchi 46 Merate (LC) – In case of bad weather the evening…
Italian astrophysicist Dr Filippo Zerbi has been elected as the next chairperson of the SKA Observatory Council, the intergovernmental organisation’s governing body – Read the whole story on INAF NEWS
For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured in a 283-million-pixel…
The Merate branch of the INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing an evening to observe the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet – October 16 from 6 to 9 pm – Via Emilio Bianchi 46 Merate (LC) – In case of bad weather the evening…
