The volume "Gli incunaboli e le cinquecentine degli Osservatori astronomici INAF" will be presented at the M. Hack Library of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory on April 16th at 4:00 pm, with the pa...

 Trieste, March 3, 2025 – A prestigious recognition has been awarded to Professor Francesca Matteucci, from the University of Trieste, who has received the 2025 Matteucci Medal, on...

Il telescopio spaziale europeo ha rilasciato nuove inedite immagini che forniranno un contributo senza precedenti nell’esplorazione della materia oscura e dell’energia oscura. Molta Italia e molta Tri...

Today, March 15, 2025 (7:39 CET), the HERMES Pathfinder mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter-13 m...

SpaceX has confirmed that Transporter 13 is scheduled for launch on March 15, 2025, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), California, USA. The six HERMES Pathfinder 3U cubesats will be integrat...

Dal 27 al 31 gennaio 2025, presso il Sexten Center for Astrophysics Riccardo Giacconi a Sesto (Bz), si è tenuta la conferenza "Exploring the Enigma of First Stars and Galaxies in the era of JWST", un ...

On November 7, the award ceremony for the international "Luigi Tartufari" prize was held at the headquarters of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. The award was presented to Stefano Borgani, professor ...

Milioni di stelle e galassie illuminano il primo tassello della grande mappa dell’Universo in corso di realizzazione da parte del satellite Euclid dell’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA). Il mosaico è sta...

Laura Abrami, librarian at the Trieste Astronomical Observatory, is part of the group of editors of the volume: Gli incunaboli e le cinquecentine degli Osservatori astronomici dell’Istituto Nazio...

Si è svolto nel corso dell'anno scolastico 2023-24 “VIVA MARGA”, concorso a premi per le scuole dedicato a Margherita Hack, a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa.  Il concorso, promosso dall'O...

Prof. Stefano Cristiani has been elected Vice President of the J2 Intergalactic Medium (IGM) commission/of the International Astronomical Union following the 2024 elections, the results of which were ...

Cold gas in cosmic space hosts emission of ionised carbon CII at a wavelength of 158 micron. This line is a powerful tracer of star formation activity and allows us to investigate the origin and evolu...

Cinque nuove spettacolari immagini del telescopio spaziale europeo Euclid rivelano molti nuovi dettagli sulle strutture e le dinamiche del nostro universo. Molta Italia in questa missione con i contri...

We have yet to find evidence of the existence of living alien beings but, thanks to our work recently accepted by the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (François et al. 2024), we have very compelli...

Galaxies within clusters orbit around a common center of mass in a way which differs for different types of galaxies. A recent study showed that early morphological galaxies (ellipticals and S0s) have...

Galaxy clusters, enormous cosmic structures held together by gravity, are excellent natural laboratories, particularly suitable for determining the properties of dark matter. It was thanks to the an...

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. A...

The INAF-Event Horizon prize for scientific merit has been awarded for the first time at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2023. The film "Restore Point" (trailer) claimed this distinction, with di...

Astrophysicists in Italy have shed new light on the nature of matter from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) galaxy detections 13 billion years ago and novel state-of-the-art numerical simulations ...

Quasars are certainly among the most mysterious objects in the Universe. And without any doubts, the quasar J0100+2802 is one of the most interesting quasars known to date, since it is the most lumi...

The discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope of a large number of galaxies when the Universe was less than 500 million years old (redshift z > 10) requires that these super-early systems are e...

How do you relax? With a quick ski descent on a black slope or with a good book in front of the fireplace? Each has its own techniques and even galaxy clusters have more than one.The study of the dy...

Only chemical elements up to iron can be formed inside stars by nuclear fusion. Heavier elements such as lead, gold, or uranium are produced thanks to neutron capture; for this reason, these element...