The First AGILE Catalog and First-Year AGILE Highlights.

We present an overview of the first catalog of high-confidence gamma -ray sources detected by the AGILE satellite during observations performed during the first year of operations. AGILE, launched in April 2007, is an ASI mission with INFN, IASF-CNR e CIFS participation, devoted to gamma -ray observations in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging capability in the 18-60 keV band. The AGILE First Catalog, recently published on A&A citep{pittori1}, results from a conservative analysis, with a high-quality event filter optimized to select gamma -ray events within the central zone of the instrument Field of View (radius of 40<SUP></SUP>). The catalog includes 47 high-significance gamma -ray sources for energies greater than 100 MeV, characterized by a statistical significance above 4 sigma.