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General and Applied Physics of the University of Milan. The Observatory's nucleus of astronomical instruments has been enriched with miscellaneous scientific instruments that are part of the historical collection of the University of Milan. These include telescopes, microscopes, pneumatic and electrostatic devices, instruments for cartographic surveys of the 18th-19th century.
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and enriched by subsequent directors, is displayed in the entrance hall of the
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Observatory's staff consists of approximatively one hundred people. The research area covers a large range of fields from planets to stars, black holes, galaxies, gamma-ray bursts and cosmology. The Observatory is also active in the technological research applied to the astronomical
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The dome with the 8-inch refracting telescope which
Schiaparelli had installed in 1875 is also part of the Museum. Schiaparelli used this telescope for his astronomical researches of binary stellar systems, comets, asteroids and planets of the Solar System, and particularly Mars. In 1999 the
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to the German constructor Georg Merz. In 1946 the observatory became part of the scientific institutions of the new born
Italian Republic and since 2001 it has become part of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF).
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Observatory Museum's collection features astronomical instruments used by the Brera astronomers over the years, from the early days of the Observatory to the 1970s. The collection, started by
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instrumentation and it is one of the world leaders in the development of X-ray astronomy optics and light instrumentation for space missions.
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