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ASTRI – Mini-Array is now connected to the world!
Caption: Salvatore Scuderi, Alessandro Tacchini, Giuseppe Malaspina, Marcello Lodi, Fulvio Gianotti, Christine Grivel with the monolith m-ICT connected to the world. (Credits: Giuseppe Malaspina)
May 2022 -
This last April, in Izana in Tenerife…


A new eye for ASTRI-HORN – The video
On 25th November 2021, the new camera was installed on the ASTRI-Horn prototype telescope at the Serra la Nave Observatory. The deep refurbishment of the instrument and the new aluminization of the mirror put the telescope back into focus. It…

One photon, two photons …
A new observational technique to identify the finest details of celestial sources: after long nights of experiments, stellar intensity interferometry has given its first results.
With a base between the two telescopes on the Asiago plateau…

Contract signed for ASTRI Mini-Array cameras – The video
On July, 13th 2021 at INAF-IASF in Palermo, the contract for the production of the ASTRI Mini-Array cameras has been signed by the ASTRI PI Giovanni Pareschi and delegates for choseon companies - CAEN spa and EIE group in addition to other smaller…

Search for the most energetic photon – Gamma rays open a window
For the first time, the Gamma-ray sky at PeV energies was opened to observations. The Chinese experiment Lhaaso (Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory), after almost a year of observations, found 12 cosmic accelerators in our Galaxy. The…
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