An international team of researchers is publishing in Nature the discovery of the microquasar M81 ULS-1, an ultraluminous source in the spiral galaxy M81, with data obtained with the Keck telescopes in 2010 and with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in 2015.

The meeting, in which personnel of the TIC of the Spanish universities and research centres are taking part, can be followed with streaming, and for the first time with 4k definition on the website http://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2015

An International team of scientists, which includes Ricardo Génova Santos of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries (IAC), has identified in the data from ESA’s Planck satellite a signal which represents half of the missing baryonic matter in the “Local Universe”, the set of galaxies close to the Milky Way. Using a variety of different observations, scientists had reached the conclusion that the normal (“baryonic”) matter formed in the early universe must make up 4% of the total matter in the universe, and the other 96% is composed of “ dark matter” (some 20%) and “ dark energy” (some

Danny Steeghs is a Reader in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Warwick. His interests in astrophysics as a teenager led him to study for a Masters in Astrophysics at the University of Utrecht in his native country, followed by a PhD at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. After spending some time at the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow, he spent 5 years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge USA, returning to Europe to take up a position at Warwick. Danny has established long-term collaborations with scientists at the Instituto de

Elizabeth Ferrara is the Deputy Lead Scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s Science Support Center. In addition to science, she provides help to scientists just starting to use Fermi data. She also provides science outreach for the mission, bringing the accomplishments, discoveries, and capabilities of the observatory to the greater scientific community. Finally, as professional faculty at the University of Maryland, she occasionally teaches data analysis methods to students

We are very sorry to inform you that Professor Rod Davies has left us. He was a magnificent colleague and a very dear person in the IAC. Emeritus Professor of the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) he was the Director of the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory of that University, and the scientist in charge of the British side of the “Tenerife Experiment” at the Teide Observatory.