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.
Latest news
HARPS-N helps to discover and characterize an "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903
Thanks to 108 precise radial-velocity measurements obtained with the high-resolution spectrograph HARPS-N, installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (between 2 October 2020 and 19 February 2023), together with data from ESA's CHEOPS satellite (Characterising ExOPlanet Satellite), astronomers were able to characterize the unusual planetary system known as LHS 1903.
The 5% International Time Programme is open for the next semesters 2026B and 2027A: deadline at 23:59UTC of March 9, 2026
The international Scientific Committee of the Canary Islands Observatories (CCI) invites applications for the International Time Programme (ITP) on the telescopes installed at the Observatory of Teide and Roque de Los Muchachos. Details to the call and the proposal form can be found on their web page. The current call (for the next 2 semesters and starting with semester 2026B=AOT54) is open until 23:59 of March 9, 2025.
CalendarStars 2026
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the inauguration fo the TNG. We want to celebrate 2026 going back in time to the year of inauguration, when everything began, and remember some of the main events of 1996. How old were you in 1996? How many of these events do you remember? The TNG CalendarStars of 2026 is a time machine that will take you back to scientific, cultural and funny events.
