INAF Management in brief
President:
Prof. Roberto Ragazzoni
Vice President:
Eng.
INAF Governing Board
Director General:
Dr. Gaetano Telesio
Scientific Director:
Dr. Isabella Pagano
Scientific Advisory Panel
Audit Office
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ALMA WITNESSES STAR BIRTH BEYOND THE EDGES OF THE MILKY WAY
Apr 22, 2026
A new study, led by INAF, has mapped, for the first time, the mass distribution of newly formed cores in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Thanks to high-resolution images from ALMA, it has emerged that these cores form according to the same patterns observed in the Milky Way. The result suggests that the initial fragmentation mechanisms of gas and dust clumps, from which stars are born, are universal and independent of the galactic environment.
CALVERA EXPLODED WHERE IT SHOULDN’T HAVE: A “RUNAWAY” PULSAR DEFIES THE RULES OF THE MILKY WAY
Aug 29, 2025
A stellar explosion, a pulsar, and a supernova remnant - that’s the story of Calvera. Positioned more than 6,500 light-years above the Galactic plane, this system is rewriting what we know about stellar evolution in our galaxy. The research originates from a team at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), in collaboration with the University of Palermo, and is detailed in a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
