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 first conference 2026: “No…
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 first conference 2026: “No…
Passata è la tempesta… Ogni cor si rallegra… L’artigiano a mirar l’umido cielo… Ecco il sol che ritorna… O natura cortese, son questi i doni tuoi… ASTRI-1, the first telescope installed in the ASTRI Mini-Array, has demonstrated not only…
Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have imaged a beautiful shock wave around…
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory has made a double breakthrough in these first weeks of December. While production of the smaller telescopes (SSTs) for the observatory’s southern site has begun at Dal Ben in Veneto, having successfully passed the “test…
Yesterday, a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTAO’s southern array facility took place at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile, marking the beginning of construction of the telescope foundations. The CTAO, or Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, will be…
A study conducted by our two researchers Alberto Moretti and Alessandro Caccianiga provides significant new evidence linking very high-energy neutrinos to a specific class of supermassive black holes, known as flat-spectrum blazars. The results, obtained from data from the IceCube…
The INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing a series of monthly meetings for 2025 on the topic of violence and gender issues in academic and non-academic settings, titled “When Gender Violence Does Not Exist.” Sixth Conference Title: “The Role of…
On November 25, 2025, at the Brera Astronomical Observatory in Merate, we will hold a commemoration event to remember all the victims of femicide. This year, we’ve decided to meet with local communities to understand how some important organizations are…
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the…
