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Nichi D'Amico Presidente dell'INAF dal 2015 e riconfermato a dicembre 2019 - Ci ha lasciati il 14 settembre 2020

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…
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L’altopiano di Asiago: i due telescopi usati nell’esperimento

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…
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Nichi D'Amico Presidente dell'INAF dal 2015 e riconfermato a dicembre 2019 - Ci ha lasciati il 14 settembre 2020

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…
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Mappa del piano della galassia sopra 100 TeV fatta da LHAASO. I cerchi indicano sorgenti note.

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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Marco Tavani il nuovo Presidente di INAF

Marco Tavani is the new Inaf President.

October, 12 2020 - After the sudden and very sad departure away of Nichi d’Amico on 16 September, the Italian Government appointed Marco Tavani as the new Inaf President. Marco spent his career as scientist in the field of relativistic…
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Nichi D'Amico Presidente dell'INAF dal 2015 e riconfermato a dicembre 2019 - Ci ha lasciati il 14 settembre 2020

A great loss for Astronomy

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