SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, having detected 22 of the 52 transiting planets known to date. This stems from the...

During the summer of 2013, a 4-month spectroscopic campaign took place at Teide IAC 80 and other professional and amateur observatories to observe the...

Solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars are now commonly detected in thousands of stars with space telescopes such as NASA Kepler mission. Yet, most stars...

The cutting off of gas supply in galaxies, whether it is exhausted internally or removed forcibly, can have dramatic consequences and are thought to build up...

Despite speculation that both starburst and nuclear activity in galaxies may be intimately linked via the common triggering mechanism of mergers and...

The Universe’s largest galaxy clusters likely built the majority of their massive >10^11 M⊙ galaxies in simultaneous, short-lived bursts of activity well before...

I will present a brief overview of the work of the UK ATC and then go on to describe the difficulties of producing our most challenging instrument to date...

I give an overview of our spectroscopic work on the old open cluster M67 and what it may tell us about the origin of the Sun, the existence of terrestrial...

I've heard many times about the Virtual Observatory, but what really is VO? Is it just for IT people?, for data centres?, for astronomers?, for everybody? Who...