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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Ten Years of Observations Reveal the Complex Planetary System of HIP 41378
A decade-long international observing campaign, including key observations with HARPS-N at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, has revealed the architecture of one of the most complex planetary systems known.
FGG Annual Report 2025 available for download
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.