Bologna, Apr 7, 2022, Kick Off meeting Here we are! Either in person or remotely

Stars form inside nebulae made of hydrogen, helium, and dust. As gravity pulls material together, nuclear fusion ignites, and the star’s mass determines how it will evolve over millions or billions of years. Low- and medium-mass stars expand into red giants and shed their outer layers, leaving behind white dwarfs. Extremely massive stars become red supergiants and end their lives in supernova explosions, ejecting material into space. If the remaining core after a supernova exceeds about three times the Sun’s mass, gravity overwhelms all forces and collapses the core into a black hole. Source: NASA – Stellar Evolution and Black Holes

Il cantico delle stelle: il terzo appuntamento il 15 novembre a Monteripido perugiacomunica.comune.perug…

Another article from one of our teams: AlO formation by radiative association considering both 18O and the excited 1D state of atomic oxygen. doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf17…

This night 102 years ago, Hubble discovered that there're stars outside our galaxy by observing a Cepheid variable star 1 million light years away Until barely a century ago, no human ever knew whether there was more than one galaxy in the Universe. Think about that!

Growing planetesimals? Protostellar outflow cavities as large grains factories.... 🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2505.13596v1 #astrochemistry

The final meeting of our national project will be held in Perugia next week. We achieved great results and had a lot of fun.

Today in Arcetri: how ALMA is revealing the molecular complexity of planet-forming disks: Catherine Walsh, please, on stage!!!! #astrochemistry

Our project is over after three years. It was a great adventure; we accomplished a lot and had fun. Just today, another of our works was published, the first by Gabriella Di Genova (one of our PhD students) as the first author. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found On Mars astrobiology.com/2025/03/cur… #astrobiology #Mars #biosignature #astrogeology

Oggi Marco Parriani ha presentato le nostre ricerche sulla reazione dell'ossigeno atomico con il tiofene, un composto aromatico eterociclico recentemente identificato nella pirolisi dell'argillite del cratere Gale di Marte, durante il XX Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie

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Silicon carbide, an interesting material also found in meteorites. Does it resist chemical attack by atomic oxygen? Not exactly... Check here 👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Posted this on the "other site" but wanted to share here: I made a new gif for a new site tracking JWST observations of exoplanets (still a work in progress): jlothringer.github.io/Dashbo… What an exciting ~3 years it has been! ✨🔭✨

Another paper from one of our teams: how can phosphorus interact with organic molecules in an abiotic world? @labccmg Atomistic Insights on Prebiotic Phosphorylation of Methanol from Schreibersite (Fe2NiP) Corrosion: Ab Initio Computational Study | pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…