Today, January 27, we celebrate the Day of Remembrance, in memory of January 27, 1945, when the extermination camp of Auschwitz was liberated. Eighty years have passed. In order to never forget, this year I wanted to share a series…
Less than three months after its launch, the Einstein Probe telescope has discovered a burst of low-energy X-rays that could lead scientists to reconsider how gamma-ray bursts are emitted. The explosion in question lasted more than 17 minutes – the…
The event celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Institute of Astrophysics will be held in Naples on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 January, at the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory. An opportunity to retrace the goals achieved since its establishment in…
A triangular sticker with the words “Safe Zone Inaf” will certify that, behind those doors, you can be sure to find spaces for listening and sharing, offered by colleagues, accessible to students and all staff. The National Institute of Astrophysics…
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. The discovery was made…
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert,…
January 9, 2025 – Interview by Marco Malaspina with Eleonora Troja, from the University of Rome Tor Vegata, Daniele Spiga, from the INAF in Merate, and Fabio Gastaldello, from the INAF in Milan. The topic is a space telescope for…
An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of…
Last Friday, the INAF-guided spectrograph Soxs – acronym for Son of X-Shooter – obtained the coveted PAE, or “Preliminary Acceptance in Europe”, from the European Southern Observatory: the instrument has been approved and can now be shipped to the telescope…
From the 17th century “Acta Eruditorum” to meteorological observations including the recording of the 1908 Messina earthquake, there are over two thousand titles of periodicals preserved in the library of the Brera Astronomical Observatory of the INAF, in Milan. The…
