The International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Roque de los Muchachos (ORM, La Palma) and Teide (OT, Tenerife) observatories invites applications for the International Time Programme (ITP) on the telescopes installed at these Observatories.

The exoplanet KELT-9b is predicted to have a permanent, scorching-hot day-side and a permanent cooler night-side due to tidal locking. A new study thanks to HARPS-N data at Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) and led by Lorenzo Pino (INAF Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri) in the framework of the GAPS collaboration, allowed to verify this prediction. The study also allowed to observe the effect that the different temperature across the two hemispheres could have on the three-dimensional atmospheric structure and climate of the planet.

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet around a solar-like star in 1995, researchers have detected more than 5000 planets in our galactic neighborhood, most of them orbiting very close to their star. If the diversity of these new worlds ranges from gas giants the size of Jupiter or Saturn to smaller planets the size of Mercury, including rocky planets larger than the Earth, gas planets the size of Neptune seem to be missing. Astronomers call this empty "space" in the distribution of close-in planets the Hot Neptune Desert.

WAS, the WEAVE Archive System facility offered by the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - INAF, started its commissioning on the 17^th of January 2023. Data access has been opened to the WEAVE Participants in order to verify its functionality.