The standard scientific operations of the instrument OSIRIS will start at the GTC by mid March. The first tests of the instrument once mounted on the telescope...

Abstract: A small group of giants on RGB show anomalously large amounts of Li in their photospheres. In some cases, Li abundance exceeds stars' natal clouds (A...

AzTEC is a sensitive bolometer camera that, coupled with 10-15m-class sub-mm telescopes, has mapped more than 3 sq. deg of the extragalactic sky to depths...

With the aim of testing the relation between supernova (SN) rate and star formation rate, we conducted a SN search in a sample of local starburst galaxies (SBs)...

Dwarf galaxies are a complex population. They comprise objects with young and old stellar populations, slow and fast rotation, as well as single- and multi...

Since its discovery in 1964, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been one of the basic pillars of the cosmological model. However, it is only very...

Planetary nebulae (PNe) are excellent tracers to study the chemistry, kinematics, and stellar populations of galaxies. They can be used to constrain the...

We will introduce the ERASMUS+ program that offers mobility exchanges between IAC, Czech, and Slovak research institutes and universities. The major part of the...

I will present a short introduction to speckle imaging and the so-called speckle holography technique. Subsequently, I will present results of speckle...