Clusters of galaxies confirm: it's cold
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ANDES successfully completes the SAR review
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On 17 and 18 October, the System Architecture Review (briefly, SAR) of the ESO/ELT ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) instrument took place at the ESO headquarters in Garching. ANDES (https://andes.inaf.it) is one of the instruments for the future 39m optical-infrared telescope, the ELT (Extremely Large Telescope - https://elt.eso.org), currently under construction on the Cerro Armazones mountain, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is a spectrograph with high resolution, extreme precision and stability, capable of covering, with a single observation, a range in wavelengths from U (0.35nm) to K (2.4 µm).
The construction of ANDES is entrusted to an international consortium made up of over 230 researchers and technologists from 24 institutes/universities distributed in 13 countries under the guidance of INAF (PI: Alessandro Marconi, PM: Paolo Di Marcantonio) and which also sees a large participation of the Trieste Observatory staff with both scientific and technological interests.
The INAF-Event Horizon award at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2023
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The film "Restore Point" (trailer) claimed this distinction, with director Robert Hloz receiving the honor.
INAF-Osservatorio di Trieste has been sponsoring the Sci+Fi Festival for a long time and has promoted this special prize for movies breaking away from the clichés that associate "scientific discovery" with "dystopian future" and facing futuristic challenges in the open field, without a blind faith in progress but also free from preconceptions.
Presentate le prime immagini di Euclid
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Ecco le prime 5 immagini a colori ricevute dal satellite Euclid dell'Agenzia Spaziale Europea!
Il satellite Euclid è ora operativo nel punto lagrangiano L2, situato oltre la Luna, a circa 1,5 milioni di km dalla Terra. È stato lanciato da Cape Canaveral, da un lanciatore SpaceX Falcon 9, il 1 luglio 2023.
Oggi, 7 novembre 2023, sono state rilasciate le prime immagini a colori del cosmo viste da Euclide. Le immagini, relative a strutture dell’Universo vicino, sono nitidissime su una frazione ampia e profonda del cielo, corrispondente a circa 2,5 volte l'area della Luna.