The "Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF, Fundación Canaria" (FGG) is a Spanish no-profit institution constituted by "INAF", the Italian Institute of Astrophysics.
The FGG's aim is to promote the astrophysical research, as foreseen in the international agreement of May 26, 1979 ("Acuerdo de Cooperación en Materia de Astrofísica, B.O.E. Núm.161, 6 Jul 1979"), by managing and running the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), a 3.58m optical/infrared telescope located in the Island of San Miguel de La Palma, together with its scientific, technical and administrative facilities.
Latest news
KEPLER-10c: A water world in a three-planet system unveiled with HARPS-N
An international team led by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) determined the mass and density of the planet Kepler-10c with unprecedented precision and accuracy. Thanks to about 300 radial velocity (RV) measurements collected with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N) spectrograph installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), it was possible to estimate its composition - mostly water in solid but possibly also liquid state - and to understand how it might have formed. The study was published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
AOT52 Call for Proposals. Deadline submission on Monday May 26th, 12:00 UT
The available time offered in this call at TNG via INAF-TAC is 50 nights, 10 of which are reserved to exo-planetary research programs with Early Career PI (see special notices below) and 40 are for other science programs. We encourage applicants to submit proposals asking a row of consecutive nights to be done in visitor mode. The budget can increase if not all the nights offered in other calls will be effectively allocated by the respective TACs. The foreseen schedule breakdown is reported at the bottom. All proposals will be judged strictly on their scientific merit.
La Palma Interferometer Workshop 2025
Following the first meeting of the La Palma Interferometer project (LPI) which took place last November in the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada (Cádiz), from April 7th to 9th, 2025 La Palma hosted the second Workshop dedicated to this important project.
NGC4614: a changing-look active galactic nuclei captured by the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
A group of fifteen students of the University of Florence (Italy), together with three professors (L. Casetti, E. Lusso, and M. Romoli), observed the galaxy NGC 4614 using DOLoRes (Device Optimized for the Low Resolution) installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). These observations were carried out as part of the course "Introduction to astrophysical observations" offered to third-year undergraduates and first-year Master students in Physics and Astrophysics, in the framework of a long-standing collaboration between the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence and the TNG.