Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 28°45'14.4N 17°53'20.6W 2387.2m A.S.L.

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.

TNG At Night M16 Nebula M16 Nebula Messier 104 (Sombrero Galaxy) NGC 6543 (Cat's Eye Nebula) Stephan's Quintet

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The NEW Multi-Facility Call For Proposals OPTICON-RadioNet PILOT in Semester 2024B is OPEN and will close on April 9th, 2024

We are pleased to announce that the 2024B call for observing time at OPTICAL/IR AND RADIO telescopes supported via OPTICON-Radionet Pilot project is now open. This call is an opportunity to request observing time on multiple radio and/or optical facilities via a single science proposal and single review process. Access is provided to over eighteen individual facilities.

New Jovian analog and activity cycle characterized by HARPS-N in the metal-rich binary star XO-2

An Italian team used more than 10 years of observational data from the HARPS-N high-resolution spectrograph mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo to discover a new Jupiter-like planet around XO-2S and to characterize the Solar-like activity cycle of its binary companion XO-2N.

We Love science: Art meets Science at the Observatory of Roque de Los Muchachos

Inspired by the dialogue between science and contemporary art, the project “We Love Science”, vision and creativity Made in Italy, is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and curated by Spazio Taverna (Ludovico Pratesi and Marco Bassan).