11 February 2025
The delivery process of the flight model of the Instrument Control Unit (ICU) of the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) was successfully c…
11 February 2025
The La Palma Interferometry project (LPI) is an innovative initiative in intensity interferometry within the visible light range, based on a system of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensors. In…
11 February 2025
A recent study within the GAPS collaboration (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems ) used two of the instruments permanently mounted on Telescopio Nazionale Galileo to study the atmospheres of th…
11 February 2025
The Radcliffe wave is a recently discovered filamentary gas structure that encompasses most of the star-forming regions in the solar neighbourhood. Its spatial structure and kinematic properties have…
11 February 2025
On October 22 and 23, CodyTrip ‐ an innovative online school trip format created by Alessandro Bogliolo from the University of Urbino ‐ touched down on the Island of Stars, La Palma. CodyTrip engages…
11 February 2025
An international team of astronomers has recently announced the discovery of a new exoplanet around the Barnard's star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which…
11 February 2025
A new study based on Chandra and TNG data shades light on the distant galaxy cluster PSZ2 G282.28+49.94. Discovered at microwave wavelengths in the Planck all-sky survey, this object attracted the in…
11 February 2025
Ten young TESS transiting planet-hosting GK stars were observed with the HARPS-N spectrograph (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher in North hemisphere) installed at Telescopio Nazionale Gal…
11 February 2025
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) observed a sample of 14 stars belonging to the six open cluster (OCs) NGC 6939, NGC 7142, NGC 7762, Berkeley 32, Collinder 110, NGC 2429 and eight field stars, usin…
11 February 2025
The recent study on the hot Jupiter Kelt-9 b, conducted as part of the GAPS (The Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) programme using the HARPS-N high-resolution spectrograph, offers a valuable…
11 February 2025
FGG Annual Report 2023
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Low resolution FGG Annual Report 2023
High resolution FGG Annual Report 2023
11 February 2025
Listed below are the TNG nights scheduled in the semester AOT50/2024B. The allocations for the same period can be found here. Dates indicate the start of night. Visiting observers are requested to re…
11 February 2025
An international team of researchers led by Dr Shweta Dalal (University of Exeter), discovered three potential "super-Earth" exoplanets orbiting the relatively nearby orange dwarf star HD 48948, loca…
11 February 2025
"The second phase of the "Young Astronomers and Telescopio Nazionale Galileo" Competition has just concluded.
Launched last November in its first edition, it has just completed its second phase, whi…
11 February 2025
On 2023, November 15, at 15:36:22 UT the European Space Agency (ESA) INTEGRAL satellite detected a short (about 0.1 second duration) flash of gamma-ray radiation from the nearby galaxy M 82 (12 milli…
11 February 2025
The principal investigator of this project, L. Palethorpe, together with her team, used high-precision radial velocity measurements from HARPS-N together with transit observations from NASA's TESS sa…
11 February 2025
The Italian Minister of the University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, has appointed Roberto Ragazzoni as the new President of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics.
Roberto Ragazzoni is…
11 February 2025
Exoplanets orbiting very close to their host stars are strongly irradiated. This can cause the upper layers of their atmospheres to expand and potentially evaporate. Atmospheric escape plays a pivota…
11 February 2025
We are pleased to announce that the 2024B call for observing time at OPTICAL/IR AND RADIO telescopes supported via OPTICON-Radionet Pilot project is now open.
This call is an opportunity to req…
11 February 2025
An Italian team used more than 10 years of observational data from the HARPS-N high-resolution spectrograph mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo to discover a new Jupiter-like planet around XO…
11 February 2025
Inspired by the dialogue between science and contemporary art, the project “We Love Science”, vision and creativity Made in Italy, is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co…
11 February 2025
Listed below are the TNG nights scheduled in the semester AOT49/2024A. The allocations for the same period can be found here. Dates indicate the start of night. Visiting observers are requested to re…
11 February 2025
We are pleased to announce that the 2024B call for observing time at optical/IR telescopes supported via OPTICON-Radionet Pilot project is now open. The call will close on March 10th, 2024 at 23…
11 February 2025
29 teams of students from italian schools participated at the competition.
Each team presented a proposal for spectroscopic and/or photometric observations aimed at solving a specific astronomical…
11 February 2025
After the maintenance works, which involved the replacement of the crio-cooler, NICS is available for observations again.
11 February 2025
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Viceconsulate of Italy on Tenerife are pleased to announce the arrival of the exhibition "We Love Science" to La Palma.
The exhibition is born with the purpose…
