Congratulations team Planck!

The team of the satellite that explored the microwave cosmic background with an unprecedented precision obtains the 2018 Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. The prestigious prize has been awarded for the outstanding scientific results obtained by the satellite in the field of cosmology and acknowledges the work of the great international team of scientists and engineers that have made possible such a success. Nine researchers of our observatory belong to this team together with several others of our town.

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Giovanni Vladilo nominato nuovo Direttore dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste

ESPRESSO: the spectrograph saw its first light at the Very Large Telescope of ESO

The big moment has come: ESPRESSO, the Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations, the terrestrial planets hunters, the instrument that can unveil the secrets of a new Physics, registered the first light of celestial objects on the 8.2m VLT telescope of ESO.

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Clusters of galaxies: observational support for the cold dark matter model

An international team led by Andrea Biviano of the INAF-OATs has observed for the first time the relation between the total mass and the mass concentration of clusters of galaxies predicted by cold dark matter models. This important discovery has been obtained from a detailed analysis of an observational data-set of 49 clusters of galaxies (OmegaWINGS). Previous observational determinations of the total mass - mass concentration relation were in disagreement with the theoretical prediction (link to the publication).

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