The medal dedicated to George Gamow, a Ukrainian astrophysicist who became a naturalized American, was awarded to the Scientific Director of Inaf, Filippo Zerbi, by a delegation of Ukrainian astrophysicists during an award ceremony organized in the Control Room of the Sardinia Radio Telescope, in connection with Massimo Capaccioli.
INAF researcher Maura Pilia from Cagliari, originally from Villasalto and now a citizen of Cagliari, has been awarded the "Young Woman of Science 2022" prize established by the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association, organizer of the Cagliari Science Festival.
The successful partnership between the ScienzaSocietàScienza association and the main scientific institutes present in Cagliari, including INAF, is renewed in 2022 to reward female personalities who have distinguished themselves in society for scientific and dissemination merits.
When, incidentally, telescopes receive photons from objects not directly observed, it's possible to do "salvage astronomy." This happened with the NuStar satellite telescope. Matteo Bachetti tells Mediainaf how a team of researchers managed to make science out of it.
An international study, which also involved the three Italian INAF radio telescopes, discovered a fast radio burst (FRB) that exploded in an unexpected way in an anomalous region and closer to Earth than expected. The contribution of the INAF team in Cagliari was decisive.
The INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari has published the call for a 12-month research grant, extendable to 24, to work on the development of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Deadline: February 16, 2022.
