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April 07, 2025 – On the femicides of Ilaria Sula and Sara Campanella – invitation to a moment of reflection – Email circulated to the Observatory staff on 7 April 2025

Red ribbon against gender violence

7 April 2025

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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory – The Congress in Florence for the first 20 years -INAF

Group photo of the congress participants

1 April 2025

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November 25, 2024 – A touch of red against violence against women – Our contribution – 3 installations

Locandina conferenza prof.ssa Loredana Garlati - 10 aprile 2025

23 March 2025

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Dark Energy Is Changing. Desi Says – Media INAF

Desi has produced the largest 3D map of the universe and is using it to study dark energy. Credits: Desi collaboration, Koon/NoirLab/Nsg/Aura/R. Proctor

23 March 2025

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Building the largest map of the cosmos – Media INAF

This map shows, in yellow, the positions of the three deep fields (Euclid Deep Fields). Euclid Deep Field North is located in the upper left portion of the image, while the other two – Euclid Deep Field South and Euclid Deep Field Fornax – are located in the lower right. Credits: Esa/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/Nasa; Esa/Gaia/Dpac; Esa/Planck Collaboration

23 March 2025

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New ESO analysis confirms severe damage from industrial complex planned near Paranal – ESO Press Release

A cosmic rainbow over the VLT - Credits: ESO.

17 March 2025

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ESO observations help almost fully rule out 2024 YR4 asteroid impact – ESO Press Release

Asteroid 2024 YR4 observed with ESO’s Very Large Telescope - Credits: ESO.

25 February 2025

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Tylos and its impetuous atmosphere – Media INAF

Tylos (or Wasp-121b) is a gas giant located about 900 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis (The Puppis). Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, it has been possible to reconstruct its atmosphere in three dimensions for the first time on an exoplanet. It was discovered that it is divided into three layers, with iron winds in the lower part, followed by a very fast jet of sodium and finally an upper layer of hydrogen winds. This type of climate has never been observed before on any planet. Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser

19 February 2025

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“Out of science fiction”: First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate – ESO Press Release

The 3D structure of the atmosphere of the exoplanet Tylos - Credits: ESO

18 February 2025

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Star cluster reveals its colours in stunning 80-million-pixel ESO image – ESO Press Release

This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity. The picture was taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars, creating an extravagant, yet spectacular landscape. As VISTA observes infrared light, it is able to peer through most of the dust in this region, which would block our view when observing in visible light. Behind the dust, VISTA is showing young stars within dusty cocoons and cold ‘failed’ stars known as brown dwarfs, thus revealing the secrets within these young stellar nurseries. Credit: ESO/VVVX survey

15 February 2025

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February 11 “Imagine a world with more women in Science” – INAF celebrates STEM and Women in Science – Our contribution

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11 February 2025

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OP 313, the blazar roars again – Media INAF

A composite image of the radio galaxy Hercules A, with the radio image obtained by Vla (New Mexico, USA) superimposed on the field photographed in optical by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The optical image of the host galaxy is clearly visible in the center, and the two collimated radio jets emerging from the nuclear region. Blazars are sources of this type but fortuitously oriented with the axis of the relativistic jet in a direction close, within a few degrees, to the line of sight. Credits: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O’Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/ AUI/ NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STSCI/AURA)

9 February 2025