Excellent result for the Italian team at its first participation in the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad – which this year took place in India – with a Senior and Master team: yesterday on the podium were Riccardo Brunetta (Pordenone)…
Cubes, a future instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has successfully passed its Final Design Review. With ESO’s approval for the instrument’s production, the VLT is one step closer to acquiring a new “eye” dedicated to the ultraviolet. Among the…
L’array di telescopi Cherenkov interamente “made in Italy” Astri è ormai in dirittura d’arrivo: dei nove previsti – tutti sull’isola di Tenerife, alle Canarie – ne sono già stati montati sette. Come sono fatti e quale scienza produrranno? In cosa…
The National Institute for Astrophysics receives an average of approximately €20,000 annually from the 5×1000 tax return. This amount is primarily allocated to the protection and enhancement of the Institute’s historical and scientific heritage, explains Antonella Gasperini, director of the…
Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), they observed a planetary disc with prominent spiral arms,…
International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and the James Webb Space…
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…
An international team led by INAF has measured for the first time the polarization of light emitted by a transitional millisecond pulsar in three different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum: X-rays, optical, and radio. The study, published in ApJL, indicates…
Following the success of participation in the seminars of the series “When gender violence does not exist: meetings on language, law, discrimination, evaluation, inside and outside the academy“, held at the Brera Astronomical Observatory, the Organizing Committee has decided to…
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), they have found…
