Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a…
The European Union has decided to finance Acme (Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe – Horizon Project) coordinated by Antoine Kouchner supported by our researcher Paolo D’Avanzo – Forty institutions from fifteen countries, eight INAF structures involved – Read…
A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, and led by Inaf has revealed important news that could rewrite our knowledge of the Milky Way: a magnetized galactic halo – Among the authors of the article are our researcher He-Shou Zhang…
For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama…
The work concerning the habitability of exoplanets orbiting around M-type stars, has as its first signatory Riccardo Spinelli, former PhD student of our Observatory now working in Palermo and has among its signatories many of our colleagues or associates: Francesco…
Guido Chincarini – A key figure in our institute in the 90s and a leading scientist in international astrophysics, he passed away on August 5, 2024. The current set-up of many research activities (and not only) for which the Observatory is…
An emission line has been identified, perhaps due to the annihilation of matter and antimatter in the Grb known as BOAT – The discovery, of great scientific impact, published in Science, has also involved several researchers/associates of our Observatory (Om…
It is a Horizon Europe project and will use machine learning algorithms to analyze the gigantic archive of images and spectra produced by the ESA mission. Among the researchers involved in the project is our colleague Benjamin Granett, with fundamental…
