“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000…
The Merate branch of the INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing an evening to observe the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet – October 16 from 6 to 9 pm – Via Emilio Bianchi 46 Merate (LC) – In case of bad weather the evening…
Italian astrophysicist Dr Filippo Zerbi has been elected as the next chairperson of the SKA Observatory Council, the intergovernmental organisation’s governing body – Read the whole story on INAF NEWS
For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured in a 283-million-pixel…
The Merate branch of the INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory is organizing an evening to observe the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet – October 16 from 6 to 9 pm – Via Emilio Bianchi 46 Merate (LC) – In case of bad weather the evening…
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is surprising…
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…
