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Dawn's greatest hits

A NASA video lists the main scientific activities of the mission, as it leaves the orbit of VESTA and heads towards Ceres.
Dawn's greatest hits

The NASA mission Dawn has left the orbit of Vesta. In a movie compiled for the occasion, NASA tells us the most important scientific results of this year's mission. Scientists, researchers and many team members have gathered virtual social media to celebrate the departure, in an event called "Hasta la Vesta". The next meeting will be with the asteroid Ceres, expected to be in 2015.

Read the full story and watch the video here: http://www.media.inaf.it/2012/09/10/i-greatest-hits-di-dawn/

Professor Leonid Lytvynenko passed away

Mar 03, 2023

Professor Leonid Lytvynenko passed away

FIRST IMAGE OF A REGION OF THE MILKY WAY FROM THE PEGASUS SURVEY

Jan 16, 2023

FIRST IMAGE OF A REGION OF THE MILKY WAY FROM THE PEGASUS SURVEY Led by INAF and Macquarie University, a portion of our Galaxy has been imaged in great detail as part of the PEGASUS survey - a radio astronomy project designed to discover more about the Milky Way

Studying the birth of exoplanets with chemistry

Sep 23, 2022

Studying the birth of exoplanets with chemistry A new study led by Elenia Pacetti, PhD student at La Sapienza University and INAF, jointly uses ultra-volatile, volatile, and refractory elements in the atmospheres of giant planets to develop a unified method to shed light on how and where giant planets form. The new work, published in The Astrophysical Journal, paves the road to the exoplanetary studies of the ESA mission Ariel