The DEA@OAB group () has been organizing conferences and events since November 2024 to promote a culture of equity, respect, accessibility, and listening within the Brera Astronomical Observatory. The group’s founding values are: respect, mutual listening, openness, collaboration, and shared…
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 third conference 2026: “Tangles…
02/06/2026 – Un gruppo di astronomi ha trovato la prova finora più convincente che alcuni pianeti al di fuori del Sistema Solare potrebbero avere dei campi magnetici. Utilizzando il VLT (Very Large Telescope) dell’Osservatorio Europeo Australe (ESO) e il telescopio…
This year, on May 17, the DEA (Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) group of the INAF – Brera Astronomical Observatory will once again join the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).The International Day, established in 2004 by the IDAHOBIT…
2026/04/16 – X-ray emission produced in the Solar System by a phenomenon known as solar wind charge exchange has been isolated for the first time. This was made possible by the privileged location of the eROSITA space telescope, which produced…
9 April 2026 – The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile, has made its first observations. The telescope will work with ESO’s ESPRESSO instrument to study the Sun in detail.…
For 2026, the INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing a series of monthly meetings on issues of gender, disability, identity, aesthetic pressure, and neurodivergence, entitled: “Shades of Red for the Coexistence of Differences.” Title of the third conference 2026: “News,…
04/03/2026 – Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder, an international team of scientists has detected what appears to be the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, a cosmic explosion whose jets were not directed toward Earth and therefore escaped high-energy observations. The…
March 8th is International Women’s Day, not a holiday, but an important anniversary to honor the social, economic, and political achievements of women and to raise awareness of gender equality. The date of March 8th was first proposed by Clara…
Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), this rich dataset — the…
