LIRIS, the IR imaging camera and spectrograph built by the IAC, is giving life to new projects. During 2006 advances were made in the search for and analysis of IR clouds. RSG1 is shown in Figure 1. It is a cloud with fourteen red supergiants, (indicated in the figure, together with the relative coordinates at the centre of the cloud), implying that the it has a mass of 2-4 x 104 M¤. This would make it one of the most massive clouds in the Milky Way. Figure II shows the cloud ID066. The centre of the cloud can be seen with an extinction zone around it, which could have come from the original
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Este acuerdo, para la financiación de la "Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics", se firmará mañana viernes, 16 de diciembre, en el Cabildo de Tenerife
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El acuerdo fue firmado esta mañana en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, en la isla de La Palma
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La entrega de este premio tuvo lugar el pasado 1 de diciembre, en el "Telecom Italia Future Centre" de Venecia
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En este curso participan investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
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Por el astrofísico MARTIN M. ROTH, del Instituto Astrofísico de Potsdam
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