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INAF received nearly €5 million in an additional performance-based fund on top of the €55.22 million allocation.
The ASTRASud proposal is funded with €17,512,992.78 and is entirely financed by INAF.
INAF will use the funds to finance projects for strengthening research activities, developing innovative technologies, and building new astrophysics laboratories.
ASTRASud aims to upgrade INAF radiotelescopes and telescopes located in southern Italy to support space surveillance and multimessenger astronomy research.
STILEMI aims to create a technological excellence ecosystem to support INAF’s scientific mission and drive innovation for the aerospace and micro/nano-technology sectors.
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte is organizing a public astronomy event in Naples on February 13, 2026 starting at 19:00.
The event at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte takes place at the observatory headquarters on the Miradois hill in Naples.
Matteo Pinamonti is an INAF researcher and the first author of the Gaia-6 B study.
Intensive high-cadence monitoring with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the INAF Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) at La Palma enabled precise measurement of Gaia-6 B’s non-circular orbital shape.
An INAF-led research team confirmed and precisely characterized a new substellar companion orbiting the star HD 128717 named Gaia-6 B.
An INAF research group selected nine LRN transients for study and reconstructed the full post-merger history for two events, AT 2011kp and AT 1997bs.
The INAF researchers also searched for pre- and post-merger images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The INAF team recovered AT 1997bs twenty-seven years after the merger using archival and new data.
The INAF team recovered AT 2011kp twelve years after the merger using archival and new data.
Post-merger remnants observed by the INAF group resemble very large red supergiant–like stars with radii of hundreds of times the Sun’s radius.
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) produced the most detailed map to date of the distribution and composition of clays on the surface of Mars.
The INAF study provides a detailed characterization of clay minerals on Mars ranging from iron-rich nontronites to magnesium-rich saponites and including intermediate compositions such as vermiculites and ferrosaponites.
The INAF global map shows the distribution of major hydrated minerals on Mars, including clays, sulfates, chlorites, and carbonates.
The INAF analysis extracted and interpreted infrared spectral signatures of clay minerals on the Martian surface.
The INAF team implemented an approach to separate spectral signals associated with iron-rich clays from those associated with magnesium-rich clays.