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.
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TNG staff contributed to the discovery and characterization of K2-312c, a cold Jupiter on a very eccentric orbit
The HARPS-N collaboration performed an extended radial-velocity (RV) monitoring of the bright star K2-312 (HD 80653), known to host a rocky ultra-short period (0.72 days only) super-Earth (https://www.tng.iac.es/news/2020/01/23/superEarth/). The long-term trend detected in the first set of HARPS-N RVs was suspected to be due to an outer, highly eccentric giant planet, K2-312c. In this respect the observations collected from March to June 2020 were decisive to detect for the first time the rapid changes in the RV values at the periastron passage.
Welcome to the TNG team, Francisco Galindo
We are pleased to welcome Francisco Galindo (Paco), who joined the Fundación Galileo Galilei – INAF on 1 July 2026, as a Telescope Operator.
29 June 2026: Celebrating 30 Years of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
On 29 June 2026, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) celebrated the 30th anniversary of its inauguration, marking three decades since the telescope officially entered service on 29 June 1996.
DOLORES reveals galactic outflows hidden in SDSS spectra of low-mass galaxies
New observations obtained using the low resolution spectrograph DOLORES installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG - La Palma) together with EFOSC2 installed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT - Chile), have revealed galactic outflow signatures in low-mass star-forming galaxies that remained undetected in previous Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. By using the highest spectral resolution provided by the VPH grisms of DOLORES, astronomers were able to investigate 52 nearby galaxies (0.01 < z < 0.03) with stellar masses below 10^10 solar masses, uncovering subtle features hidden by the lower resolution of earlier surveys. The sample was carefully selected to include galaxies whose narrow emission lines were expected to remain unresolved in SDSS spectra, based on a comparison of CO line widths, Hα line widths, and the spectral resolution of the survey.