Multi-planet systems offer a unique opportunity for comparative exoplanetology, having originated from the same proto-planetary disk and evolved in the same environment. This makes them appealing targets to test theoretical planetary formation and evolution scenarios. In this context, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is providing a significant contribution, by discovering more transiting multi-planet systems. To complement the radius information derived from the transit...

Detailed, high resolution optical and NIR spectroscopy of stellar calibrators is fundamental to define optimal diagnostics for atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of stars and stellar populations with different ages, metallicities and evolutionary properties. While diagnostic tools from high resolution optical spectroscopy are well established and calibrated since a longtime, those from NIR spectroscopy started to be explored only recently, thanks to the new generation of NIR...

Star clusters are among the most versatile astronomical objects. Within our Galaxy, they play a key-role in the study of both stellar and Galactic chemical evolution, star formation history and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. Recent results obtained within the Stellar Population Astrophysics (SPA) project, are presented. SPA is an on-going Large Programme carried out with the 3.6 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). The...

Prof. Nicolò D’Amico (1953-2020) The INAF President Nicolò (Nichi) D'Amico suddenly passed away on September 15, 2020. He also was the President of the Patronato, the governing body of the Fundacion Galileo Galilei-INAF, Fundacion Canaria. His main research field was radioastronomy, with several top-level duties in many projects and committees. Chair Professor in Astrophysics at the Cagliari University since 2002, he was in succession promoter, leader, responsible of the construction,...

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Disk winds play a fundamental role in the evolution of protoplanetary systems. They are responsible for gas dissipation in the inner disk region by altering the disk surface density and eventually affecting the process that leads to the formation and migration of protoplanets. The complex structure and dynamics of disk winds can be investigated through the emission of atomic and molecular lines detected in high-resolution optical/infrared spectra of young stellar objects. Despite their great...

  We are pleased to announce that the call for observing time at night time telescopes supported by the OPTICON-Radionet Pilot (ORP) Trans-National Access programme is now open. See https://www.astro-opticon.org/h2020/tna/call/call-2021a.html The call will close on August, 31st 2020 at 23.59 UT exactly. The present EC OPTICON contract ends on 31 December 2020. This call is being made under the auspices of a new contract (the OPTICON-Radionet Pilot) which we expect will come into force on...

Credits: Massimo Cecconi, FGG   The upper part of the TNG building is positioning to observe the first target on a starry night. Over the top, the last part of a meteor track. The comet NEOWISE, with its two tails, is rapidly setting flanked by the faint trails of artificial satellites and the very bright ones of the Starlink constellation. The TNG staff expresses his concerns about this new and subtle form of light pollution of our skies, joining those of the whole astronomical...