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Stars, Stellar Populations and Interstellar Medium
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Sun and Solar System
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Relativistic and Particle Astrophysics
- Matter in extreme conditions
- Physics of accretion and matter ejection
- Astrophysics of compact objects
- The most powerful cosmic explosions: supernovae and gamma-ray bursts.
- The origin of cosmic rays and dark matter
- Physics of gravitation and cosmology with high precision space astrometry
- Detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources
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Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation
The best point of view toward the universe
The long journey of human missions to Mars and back to Earth
Aug 09, 2021
The Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Australian Academy of Science, invites you to an Italian Night with Five Southern Stars!
Gaia draws a new map of the galactic spirals
Jul 28, 2021
An international team led by researchers of the the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has compiled the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way’s spiral structure within about 16,000 light years from the Sun, by making use of the position and brightness of around 600,000 young stars measured by Gaia, the European Space Agency’s star surveyor
The morphology of the X-ray afterglows and of the jetted GeV emission in long gamma-ray bursts
May 12, 2021
In a new article published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an ICRA-ICRANet research team (some of them INAF associates) sheds light on the mass and spin of stellar-mass BHs from an extensive analysis of long-duration GRBs
The best place and time to live in the Milky Way
Mar 05, 2021
More than 6 billion years ago, the outskirts of the Milky Way were the safest places for the development of possible life forms, sheltered from the most violent explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. This is demonstrated by a new study, led by researchers from INAF and the University of Insubria in Italy, which investigates the incidence of these events throughout the evolution of our galaxy
The long journey of human missions to Mars and back to Earth
Aug 09, 2021
The Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Australian Academy of Science, invites you to an Italian Night with Five Southern Stars!
Gaia draws a new map of the galactic spirals
Jul 28, 2021
An international team led by researchers of the the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has compiled the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way’s spiral structure within about 16,000 light years from the Sun, by making use of the position and brightness of around 600,000 young stars measured by Gaia, the European Space Agency’s star surveyor
The morphology of the X-ray afterglows and of the jetted GeV emission in long gamma-ray bursts
May 12, 2021
In a new article published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an ICRA-ICRANet research team (some of them INAF associates) sheds light on the mass and spin of stellar-mass BHs from an extensive analysis of long-duration GRBs
The best place and time to live in the Milky Way
Mar 05, 2021
More than 6 billion years ago, the outskirts of the Milky Way were the safest places for the development of possible life forms, sheltered from the most violent explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. This is demonstrated by a new study, led by researchers from INAF and the University of Insubria in Italy, which investigates the incidence of these events throughout the evolution of our galaxy
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On October 9th 2020, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) appointed Professor Marco Tavani as President of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). Below, the latest news on the president:
INAF joins the MeerKAT+ Project
Dec 17, 2020
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft welcome the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica as partner on the MeerKAT extension project
Ultraviolet light vs. COVID19: from the Sun to artificial lamps the germicidal power of ultraviolet rays against the pandemic
Jun 15, 2020
Results of a study carried out by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the University of Milan, in collaboration with Istituto Nazionale Tumori and the Don Gnocchi Foundation of Milan, demonstrate the high germicidal power of short ultraviolet radiation (UV-C) on SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. This result has important public health implications on the strategies to be adopted to manage the pandemic and clearly explain how decontamination and sterilization protocols to prevent SARS-Cov-2 infection must be designed. Notably, taking off from these results a second study explains the role of Sun-derived UV-B/A in conditioning the epidemiology and the worldwide evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic
III Italy-Ukraine Scientific Meeting “Are We Alone in the Universe?”
Jun 04, 2020
A Virtual Conference on the Occasion of the Italian Research Day in the World
The up-to-date list of open positions and job opportunities is available on the Italian website.
The long journey of human missions to Mars and back to Earth
Aug 09, 2021
The Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Australian Academy of Science, invites you to an Italian Night with Five Southern Stars!
The best place and time to live in the Milky Way
Mar 05, 2021
More than 6 billion years ago, the outskirts of the Milky Way were the safest places for the development of possible life forms, sheltered from the most violent explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. This is demonstrated by a new study, led by researchers from INAF and the University of Insubria in Italy, which investigates the incidence of these events throughout the evolution of our galaxy
Magnetic anomalies on the young craters of Mercury
Feb 24, 2021
It is possible to find a point of convergence between geophysics and planetary geology, and a group of researchers led by Valentina Galluzzi from INAF did so by analyzing the crustal magnetic field of the planet Mercury, focusing on some anomalies identified nearby two recently formed craters
A “cosmic microscope” reveals the origin of galactic winds produced by supermassive black holes
Dec 17, 2020
By studying a sample of distant galaxies, whose light reaches us from a cosmic epoch when the Universe was just three billion years old, a team of researchers led by Giustina Vietri (INAF) has followed the winds blowing in “active” galaxies down to only a few light-years from the supermassive black holes that sit in the galactic cores
