“Trieste city of knowledge”. The Memorandum of Understanding signed at the Town Hall
"Universities, research and higher education institutions of Trieste metropolitan area together contribute to make Trieste district one of the European areas with the higher percentage of staff employed in research. The city of Trieste and its metropolitan area can thus aspire to become the attraction pole both for national and international students and scientists, with obvious and manifold benefits for the surrounding area and for its economy, bearing in mind its peculiar and appealing environmental, historical and cultural features.” On the above prerequisites is grounded and is reinforced the Memorandum of Understanding signed on Wednesday 14 June in the Salotto Azzurro of Trieste Town Hall by Angela Brandi, council member in charge of Education, University and Research, and by the representatives of all institutions which subscribed and supported this important initiative. For INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste the agreement was signed by the director, professor Stefano Borgani. (press release, in Italian)
We may have to rewrite the story of the evolution of the protosolar nebula. It is the conclusion reached by Marco Fulle and coauthors on the basis of the data collected by the Rosetta mission on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The important result is based both on the ratio between ices and dust of the comet and on the distribution of pebbles and fractals.
The first light of the coudè train of the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the UT1/VLT/ESO telescope took place during the first half of the night of December 13, 2016. As already noticed during the day-time tests, astronomical observations have confirmed the superb alignment, optimal image quality and very high stability that are fundamental prerequisites to fulfill the ambitious scientific cases for ESPRESSO.
An international team including Elena Mason discovered 18 giant and subgiant stars that are very fast rotators in the combined Kepler and Swift survey (read it in 