E’ un giorno importante per l’astronomia, questo. Senza esagerare, possiamo dire che è la prima e decisiva tappa di un percorso che si accompagnerà per diversi anni. Il primo catalogo di GAIA
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EXTraS – Taking the pulse of the XMM-Newton sky
Pulsar discovered in the Andromeda galaxy by the OAR EXTraS team. For general (non-technical) information about this discovery, see here, for all the details see here. Digging Up the Hidden
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OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretations, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) è una missione selezionata nell’ambito del programma NASA New-Frontiers per prelevare e riportare a Terra un campione di materiale di
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ASTRI
Within the framework of the CTA international project, INAF is leading the ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project. The main goals of the project are the realization
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The amazing life of stars
Meeting announcement The amazing life of stars: from the Main Sequence to the Gravitational Wave emission Coordinators: E. Brocato(1), F.R. Ferraro(2), M. Limongi(1), L. Burderi(3) Cefalù (Sicily, Italy), September 4-8, 2017 (1) INAF –
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project is a worldwide project aimed to build the next generation Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) devoted to reveal very high energy gamma-rays from astrophysical
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Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics) is the future large-class X-ray Observatory selected by ESA to study the Hot and Energetic Universe. It is due for launch in 2028.
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The NUclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) mission is a NASA Explorer launched in 2012. It is the first hard X-ray focusing satellite. For this reason is hundreds of times more
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The WISE/SDSS-selected hyper-luminous quasar (WISSH) survey is an extensive multi-band observing program (from millimeter wavelengths to hard X-rays) to investigate the role of nuclear activity in SMBH-galaxy self-regulated growth via extended
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JEDI
JEDI : JEts and Disk at INAF P.I.: Brunella Nisini The JEDI collaboration collects researchers of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) working in the field of
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