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…
June 2026 – Congratulations to our astrophysicist Ben Granett, who has been awarded the 2026 Euclid STAR Prize – Senior Award with the following citation: “For his fundamental contributions to the spectroscopic pipeline and galaxy clustering analysis, and his crucial…
June 15, 2026 – NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton have identified a patch of X-ray emission that could be the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova, approximately 26,000 light-years away. If confirmed, it would be…
2026, June 18 – Today, Maria Cristina Baglio, our colleague at the Observatory’s Merate headquarters, received the 24th L’Oreal UNESCO Prize for Women in Science. From ANSACOM in collaboration with L’Oréal Italia:“From the limited female representation in STEM disciplines to…
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…
