The Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility at OAB (DEA@OAB) group was established in November 2024 with the aim of promoting a culture of equity, respect, accessibility, and listening within the Brera Astronomical Observatory through initiatives aimed at raising awareness of these…
To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked girls and boys from two fifth-grade classes to draw a scientist. The sample consisted of 22 girls and 17 boys, for a total of 39 participants. The…
Today, February 11th, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year too, the women who work every day at our observatory have decided to show their support! We’ve updated the poster we created last year,…
Today, January 27, we celebrate the Day of Remembrance, in memory of January 27, 1945, when the extermination camp of Auschwitz was liberated. Eighty years have passed. In order to never forget, this year I wanted to share a series…
Today, January 27, we celebrate the Day of Remembrance, in memory of January 27, 1945, when the extermination camp of Auschwitz was liberated. Eighty years have passed. In order to never forget, this year I wanted to share a series…
The INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing a series of monthly meetings for 2026 on issues of gender, disability, identity, aesthetic pressure, and neurodivergence, entitled “Shades of Red for the Coexistence of Differences.” Title for the first conference 2026: “No…
The INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing a series of monthly meetings for 2026 on issues of gender, disability, identity, aesthetic pressure, and neurodivergence, entitled “Shades of Red for the Coexistence of Differences.” Title for the first conference 2026: “No…
Passata è la tempesta… Ogni cor si rallegra… L’artigiano a mirar l’umido cielo… Ecco il sol che ritorna… O natura cortese, son questi i doni tuoi… ASTRI-1, the first telescope installed in the ASTRI Mini-Array, has demonstrated not only…
Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have imaged a beautiful shock wave around…
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory has made a double breakthrough in these first weeks of December. While production of the smaller telescopes (SSTs) for the observatory’s southern site has begun at Dal Ben in Veneto, having successfully passed the “test…
