The first results of a program of observations designed to probe the structure and kinematics of the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) using the Queen's University of Belfast Echelle Spectrograph (QUBES) on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope are reported. The observations show the potential of the instrument for measuring small column densities

We present deep Ka-band (ν~ 33 GHz) observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) made with the extended Very Small Array (VSA). This configuration produces a naturally weighted synthesized FWHM beamwidth of ~11 arcmin, which covers an l range of 300 to 1500. On these scales, foreground extragalactic sources can be a major source of

Observations of three post-Main-Sequence nebulae, taken with an intermediate dispersion spectrograph mounted on the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope (La Palma, Spain), are presented. The results reveal evidence for high-velocity outflows of about 100 km/s in the primary shells, and very much greater velocities in the cores, while in one unique source

This volume documents the contributions presented at the 5th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA). Covering a wide range of topics, the 154 contributed papers give a comprehensive overview of the current state of Spanish astronomy. The Proceedings include special reviews by Dr. V. Trimble and other experts dealing with the

We investigate a peculiar feature at the hottest, blue end of the horizontal branch of Galactic globular cluster ω Centauri, using the high-precision and nearly complete catalog that has been constructed from a survey taken with the Advanced Camera for Survey on board the Hubble Space Telescope, that covers the inner 10 × 10 arcmin. It is a densely

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