August 25, 2026 – Below are the words of our researcher Sergio Campana, PI of the Italian group and responsible for the calibration of the XRT telescope. After nearly 23 exciting years of great discoveries, “our”satellite Swift is about to…
19/08/2026 – Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) and…
August 13, 2026 – 7:47 PM – TGR LOMBARDIA – Eclipses in the ancient books of the Brera Observatory Report by: Antonio Sgobba “One of the oldest and most precious books is an incunabulum, with the first predictions of a…
28/07/2026 – At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), a team led by French researcher…
22/07/2026 – We are delighted to share the following video, which captures our Agnese Mandrino – responsible of the historical archive and library of Brera – organising the archive of the Vatican Observatory, with which OABrera recently signed a collaboration agreement…
22/07/2026 – Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a…
15/07/2026 – A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b — the first planet discovered in the same system —…
06/07/2026 – Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to study the composition of 3I/ATLAS, the brightest interstellar object ever seen, in detail. By measuring specific chemical fingerprints — the first observations of this kind…
01/07/2026 – A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.” According to the study, no more than 100…
June 29, 2026 – Thanks to the combination of the VLT’s four telescopes and the Espresso spectrograph, a study conducted by our astrophysicist Francesco Borsa of the INAF has confirmed the validity of the spectroscopic technique for studying light reflected…
