Scientific and Technological projects
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Athena
The Astrophysics of the Hot and Energetic Universe - CTA
An observatory for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy 
Darklight
Illuminating Dark Energy with the Next Generation of Cosmological Redshift Surveys- Espresso
Searching for other Worlds - GrawITA
GRAvitational WaveSearching 
ELT High Resolution Spectrograph
Biosignatures in Exo-Earths - First Light Stars - Fundamental Physics
Hot Milk - The Hot phase of the Milky Way
Flows of hot plasma connecting the Milky Way center to the corona, halo and beyond- MAGIC
Gamma-ray astronomy at low energies with high sensitivity - MAORY
Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY for E-ELT - Rem
A 60 cm diameter telescope located in the La Silla - SOXS @ NTT
Son Of X-Shooter - Built by an international consortium - Spaceinn
Exploitation of Space Data for Innovative Helio- and Asteroseismology - Swift
A NASA medium explorer satellite for GRB science - Weave
The next-generation wide-field survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT)
Go to Project Archives
Seminars in Milan
- Search and study of blazars in the early Universe
- h. 10:30 - 19 Jan 2021 - Brera | Silvia Belladitta - INAF - Brera
Latest publications
- Development of multilayer coatings (Ni/C-Pt/C) for hard x-ray telescopes by e-beam evaporation with ion assistance
- Spiga, Daniele, Pareschi, Giovanni, Citterio, Oberto, Banham, Robert, Basso, Stefano, Cassanelli, Marco, Cotroneo, Vincenzo, Negri, Barbara, Grisoni, Gabriele, Valsecchi, Giuseppe, et al., -
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Characterization of a flat superpolished mandrel prototype
with hard (TiN/SiC) overcoating to enhance the surface
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- Characterization of multilayer stack parameters from x-ray reflectivity data using the PPM program: measurements and comparison with TEM results
- Spiga, D., Mirone, A., Pareschi, G., Canestrari, R., Cotroneo, V., Ferrari, C., Ferrero, C., Lazzarini, L., Vernani, D. -
- Multilayer coatings for x-ray mirrors: extraction of stack parameters from x-ray reflectivity scans and comparison with transmission electron microscopy results
- Spiga, D., Pareschi, G., Cotroneo, V., Canestrari, R., Mirone, A., Ferrero, C., Ferrari, C., Lazzarini, L., Vernani, D. -
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The new OAB Director
 Good luck to Roberto Della Ceca the new OAB Director after two proxies of Gianpiero Tagliaferri. |
Visits and information
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Astronomical Museum of Brera
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Competitions
Thesis in OAB
Click here to go to our PCTO archive on Edu INAfOAB for school
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Astro curiosity
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January 2021
Tu quoque Gregorii
What have in common Giulio Cesare and the Pope Gregorio XIII?
Read the curiosity by Tomaso Belloni
Go to the web page to read the curiosity
News
Look over the following link to know all our events: Google Calendar
Our events in January - Click on the pdf icon to download the newsletter in pdf format 
The observatory is closed to public from March, 1 2020 (see the ordinance of Premier). For Milano: the Astronomical Museum of Brera is closed - the astronomical lessons of Universo in fiore are cancelled - for Merate: all evening and daily visits and lessons are cancelled. Follow us for news.
What will happen when two neutron stars – or e black hole and a neutron star – merge? The process has been reconstructuring in detail by an international team led by our astronomer Stefano Covino with the results published in three papers ... - Read on: Media Inaf
Galaxies being to "die&quo; when they stop forming stars ... Read all story translated by Anna Wolter on eso2101
Universo in fiore - Open registration for the advanced course of astronomy from January, 26 to March, 30 2021. All information to the following link ADVANCED course. On our Youtube channel some testimonies.
January 2021 - Adimitted students for the inter-regional competition for the XIX edition of Italian Olympics of Astronomy - Click on the following link for all information.
Events
Online courses! BASIC course (September-December 2020) - ADVANCED course (January-March 2021). On our Youtube channel some testimonies.
Italian astronomical olympics are organized and supported by the ministry of school (MIUR, office 1) in collaboration with the Italian Astronomical Society and the National Institute of Astrophysics. Go to official site www.olimpiadiastronomia.it
Go to 11th edition for "I cieli di Brera" - public conferences - Milano The conferences series are organized by Brera Observatory in collaboration with Brera Pinacoteca and Institute of Science and Literature of Milano.
Personal expositions - Brera Astronomical Observatory - Merate - Go to page http://www.brera.inaf.it/ArteInCupola/
Research for everybody
- Selected issues web site and pages
- MOON: collective story - Fiftieth from Moon landing
July, 20 1969 mankind takes the first walk on the surface of the Moon ...
INAF-OAB celebrates the fiftieth anniversary with some events.
(go to the italian web page)
Riccardo Giacconi. Memories. On EDU INAF
by Laura Barbalini, Anna Wolter and Luigi Stella
(go to the italian web site)
A web site telling the history of the Observatory through its instruments ... (go to the italian web site)
Gamma-ray bursts were first observed in the late 1960s by the U.S. Vela satellites, which were built to detect gamma radiation pulses emitted by nuclear weapons tested in space ... (go to the italian web site)
