The historic training ship Amerigo Vespucci, a symbol of Italian excellence worldwide, hosted the event "Islas entre ondas" on 22 May during its stop in Santa Cruz de Tenerife as part of the "Amerigo Vespucci World Tour - North America Campaign 2026.

On 29 June 2026, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) will celebrate its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of scientific discovery from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma.

The available time offered in this call at TNG via INAF-TAC is 67 nights, 47 of which are reserved to exo-planetary research programs (see special notices below) and 20 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.

Spectroscopic observations obtained with the spectrograph DOLORES installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo enabled astronomers to determine the redshift of one of the most distant lensing galaxies known to date. The system, J1453+0529, consists of a quasar at redshift 2.82 whose light is gravitationally lensed by a foreground elliptical galaxy at redshift 1.055. The lens produces a rare quadruple configuration with an extremely small separation between the images. High-resolution imaging clearly shows the four quasar images arranged around the central lensing galaxy (see Figure 1). This configuration allows astronomers to measure the Einstein radius with great precision and determine the total mass enclosed within it, providing strong constraints on the stellar initial mass function in the galaxy’s central region.