The robotic 2-metre Liverpool Telescope (LT), located at Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, has seen great success in its <15 year lifetime. In particular the...
The Oxygen versus Sodium (Anti)Correlation(S) in ω Cen
Recent examination of large samples of ω Cen giants shows that, as in mono-metallic globular clusters, sodium versus oxygen anticorrelation is present within...
The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. I. First Results and Description of the Program
We present the first results of a ground-based program to determine the proper motion of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) relative to background quasars (QSO), being...
We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry of young stars in NGC 5102, a nearby gas-rich post-starburst S0 galaxy with a bright young stellar nucleus. We use...
The Report on the Socio-economic Impact of the TMT on La Palma has been presented
This morning, in the Cultural Space of the CajaCanarias Foundation in Santa Cruz de La Palma there was a public presentation of the Report on the Socio-economic...
The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory serves as an inspiration to the world tourism summit which is being held on La Palma
A delegation made up of political authorities and representatives of some of the institutions taking part today in the world summit Setting the Recovery of...
The star formation history and dust content in the far outer disc of M31
We present a detailed analysis of two fields located 26 kpc (˜5 radial scalelengths) from the centre of M31 along the south-west semimajor axis of the disc. One...
We use deep Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys/High Resolution Channel observations of a field within M32 (F1) and an M31 background field (F2)...
The star formation history of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy
We present the star formation history (SFH) of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy based on deep g, r photometry taken with Dark Energy Camera at the Blanco...