Astrophotographer, lover of Etna and its eruptions. The website of the National Institute of Astrophysics Catania posts his latest venture and presents it as follows: “Spectacular, taken at our observatory station in Serra La Nave on the night of 10...
CHERENKOV TELESCOPE ARRAY (CTA) National responsible:Massimo Cappi Local contact person:Giuseppe Leto The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy, designed to detect gamma rays with energies ranging from...
Scientific publications 202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011 Evidence of structural discontinuities in the inner core of red-giant stars 2022NatCo..13.7553V Vrard, M., Cunha, M. S., Bossini, D., Avelino, P. P., Corsaro, E., Mosser, B., 2022, Nature...
ASTRI Mini Array Principal Investigator:Giovanni Pareschi Local contact person:Giuseppe Leto ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) was born in 2010 as a flagship project of MIUR to support the development of technologies aimed at the...
History of the Observatory In 1876, during a solemn Academy Gioenia meeting, on the suggestion of the astronomer Pietro Tacchini from Modena, the project for the construction of an Observatory dedicated to Physical Astronomy, to be entitled to Vincenzo Bellini, was...