Istituto nazionale di astrofisica

Established	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Address	Viale del Parco Mellini 84, 00136 Rome, Italy
Location	Rome , Italy
Coordinates	41°55′21″N12°27′08″E / 41.92250°N 12.45222°E /41.92250; 12.45222
Interactive map of Istituto nazionale di astrofisica
Website	www.inaf.it

TheNational Institute for Astrophysics (Italian:Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, orINAF) is an Italianresearch institute inastronomy andastrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn employ scientists, engineers and technical staff. The research they perform covers most areas of astronomy, ranging fromplanetary science tocosmology.^[1]

INAF coordinates the activities of twenty research units, nineteen in Italy and one inSpain:

• Bologna Observatory
• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Bologna
• Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna
• Cagliari Observatory
• Catania Observatory
• Arcetri Observatory (Florence)
• Brera Observatory (Milan)
• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Milano
• Capodimonte Observatory (Naples)
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
• Palermo Observatory
• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Palermo
• Rome Observatory
• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Roma
• Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario di Roma
• Collurania-Teramo Observatory
• Turin Observatory
• Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario di Torino
• Trieste Observatory
• Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (Canary Islands, Spain)
• Sardinia Radio Telescope (San Basilio,Sardinia)
• Noto Radio Observatory (Noto,Sicily)

INAF is involved in scientific collaborations with several international institutions, including:

• theEuropean Southern Observatory (Italy has been an ESO member since 1982)
• the astronomical observatories located in Canary Islands (Teide Observatory andRoque de los Muchachos Observatory)
• theLarge Binocular Telescope, in partnership with the United States and Germany
• theVery Long Baseline Interferometry consortium
• theEuropean Space Agency (ESA)
• the AmericanNational Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)

• Giampaolo Vettolani, scientific director
• Stefano Cristiani, board member
• Nicolò D'Amico, president in 2015-2020

Projects include:

• Mars Multispectral Imager for Subsurface Studies, instrument for theExoMars roverRosalind Franklin
• Rapid Eye Mount telescope (REM)
• Juno'sJIRAM

• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
• French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

• Official website of INAF
• Public and press website of INAF
• Website of the Italian Telescopio Nazione Galileo
• Website of the Large Binocular Telescope (Arizona, US)
• Italian Astronomical Archive Center
• VObs.it: Italian Virtual ObservatoryArchived 2012-10-21 at theWayback Machine

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