News: 2017

The announcement for this year's edition of the Astronomy Olympics has been released. Those born in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 can participate.

"Life is either lived or written," said Pirandello. Lately, we've been living it a lot but writing a bit less. Between international meetings, NASA visits, Cassini's splashdown, and everything needed to stay afloat every day, we've had little time to "socialize" our - more than ever numerous and intense - activities. Last night we had the chance to do so.

This year too, the OAC opens its doors to the public for the European Researchers' Night, offering the chance to meet and converse with scientists and technologists

On the occasion of the International Astronomical Union Symposium (IAUS336 - Astrophysical Masers, Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe), 160 astrophysicists will meet in Cagliari to discuss masers, those "markers" that allow the study and measurement, among other things, of gas movements in space between stars and in stellar atmospheres.

The new schedule of dates for SRT visits is now online

On the occasion of observing a "giant flare" on Cygnus X-3, Italy officially inaugurates its national VLBI (Very Large Baseline Interferometry) network, which includes the antennas of SRT, Medicina, and Noto. A research initiative starting from Sardinia.

Thanks to a series of joint observations on the protostar Cepheus A HW2, SRT becomes a full member of the European VLBI Network, the European network of radio telescopes capable of observing the sky as a single large dish. The results are coming out in A&A.

Starting June 1, 2017, Dr. Emilio Molinari will be the new director of the Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari, succeeding Dr. Andrea Possenti.

Another well-deserved recognition for our young researcher of Selargius origin