We use the catalogue of HII regions obtained from a high quality continuum-subtracted H_α image of the grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 7479, to construct the luminosity function (LF) for the HII regions (over 1000) of the whole galaxy. Although its slope is within the published range for spirals of the same morphological type, the unusually strong

We study the generation of vorticity in the magnetic boundary layer of buoyant magnetic tubes and its consequences for the trajectory of magnetic structures rising in the solar convection zone. When the Reynolds number is well above 1, the wake trailing the tube sheds vortex rolls, producing a von Kármán vortex street, similar to the case of flows

Near-infrared (JHK) images of the nucleus of the barred spiral galaxy M100 (NGC 4321) have been obtained using a high-bandwidth tip-tilt secondary and fast guider system on the 3.8 m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). The resulting images, with a resolution of 0.34'' at K, reveal for the first time a host of compact `knots', which appear to

The LEGRI Science Operation Center (SOC) is the single contact point between the MINISAT-01 Centro de Operaciones Científicas (COC) located at Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid) and the LEGRI Consortium. Its architecture, operational procedures and associated software has been developed at the Universities of Valencia and Birmingham on the scope to

In recent years, a lot of effort has been put into better understanding the physical processes which lead a sunlike star, at the end of its evolution, to lose its gaseous envelope and die as a slowly cooling white dwarf. The most spectacular phase of this late evolution is the one in which the ejected envelope is made fluorescent by the energetic

In this paper we present first results from an observational study of the connection between the global parameters of barred galaxies and the appearance of structures, such as dust lanes and star-forming rings in their circumnuclear regions. We combine near-infrared imaging of the central small-scale core structure with optical imaging of the large