It has passed all the tests and is ready to leave next April for Cape Canaveral the satellite of the Hexa' Euclid ' which will go into space to make a large-scale map of the three-dimensional structure of the Universe in the last ten billion years. [...] To give the most realistic picture of the weight of the Euclid mission in Italy alone, over two hundred scientists from our country belonging to INAF are involved (mainly the institutes Iaps of Rome, Oas of Bologna and Iafs of Milan and the Astronomical Observatories of Bologna, Brera, Padua, Rome, Turin and Trieste), the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and numerous universities, first of all the University of Bologna and then the University of Ferrara, the State University of Milan, the Sapienza University of Rome, the Roma 3, the University of Trieste, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (Sissa) and the Cisas of Padua.
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