National Institute for Astrophysics

INAF coordinates the activities of twenty research units, nineteen in Italy and one in Spain: • 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) == International partnerships ==

MAORY adaptive optics system. INAF is involved in scientific collaborations with several international institutions, including: • the European Southern Observatory (Italy has been an ESO member since 1982) • the astronomical observatories located in Canary Islands (Teide Observatory and Roque de los Muchachos Observatory) • the Large Binocular Telescope, in partnership with the United States and Germany • the Very Long Baseline Interferometry consortium • the European Space Agency (ESA) • the American National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) == Notable figures ==

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

Projects include: • Mars Multispectral Imager for Subsurface Studies, instrument for the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin • Rapid Eye Mount telescope (REM) • Juno's JIRAM == See also ==