The Vatican Observatory Summer School in Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics will host 24 students from 20 nations for its biennial session running from 4 to 30 June. The study and research school thus reopens its doors after several years of hiatus due to the Covid pandemic.
Fr. Alessandro Omizzolo, an astronomer at both the Vatican Observatory and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics /Padua Observatory, is Dean of VOSS and in a Vatican Observatory press release noted that, “as telescopes grow larger and the detectors on them become more sensitive, the amount of astronomical data that scientists need to understand has grown dramatically.
At the conclusion, Pope Francis will welcome them, as he has done in previous years with other groups of VOSS participants.This year's students hail from a variety of nations, including: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay.