Over the past two decades NASA spacecraft have visited many of the planets and moons of the solar system. During these missions many detailed photographs were taken. This publication utilizes some of the best of the photos to show size comparisons - to scale - of these planets and moons.

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Middle and far infrared studies of the irregular galaxy M 82 and of Seyfert galaxies are presented. M 82 was observed spectrophotometrically from 8 to 13 microns at 6 different positions selected across its 10 microns emitting region. A model is proposed which explains satisfactorily most of the observed properties of M 82 from X-ray to radio

Orientation effects are believed to be important in sources which harbor relativistic jets in their nuclei. BL Lac type objects are interpreted as a type of this class of objects whose galaxy counterpart is a bright elliptical galaxy. This interpretation requires every bright elliptical galaxy to have a BL Lac type nucleus beamed usually away from

Astronomy in the Canary Islands has grown from its historical beginnings at the site-testing expedition of C. Piazzi Smyth in 1856. Simony, Edgecomb, and Mascart followed in his footsteps. The Observatorio Astronomico del Teide was provisionally founded in 1959 to study the astronomical qualities of the Canary Islands' sky. It led to the present