• 2020, June 1 – Crab Nebula detected with a two mirror telescope in Arizona
  On 1 June 2020, scientists from the CTA Consortium announced at the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that they have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula using a prototype telescope proposed for CTA, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT)
  Read on Media Inaf: Osservata con pSCT la Nebulosa del Granchio
• 2019 – May – ASTRI-HORN is first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies

             Read on Media Inaf:  Cielo gamma: due specchi sono meglio di uno

             Read on APPEC: https://www.appec.org/news/astri-crab-nebula

• 2017 – June 14 – CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Achieves First Light

• 2016 – November 11 – CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Demonstrates Viability of Novel Schwarzschild-Couder Design

• 2016 – June 13 – The governing body of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH (CTAO gGmbH), the CTA Council, selected Bologna (Area CNR-INAF) as the host site of the CTA Headquarters