We report on deep radio images and optical spectroscopy of two BL Lac objects that have very close compact companions. The two targets, 1ES 0502+675 and 1ES 1440+122, were selected from the Hubble Space Telescope imaging survey of 110 BL Lacs as candidates for possible gravitational lensing. The new observations clearly demonstrate that the

Using high-resolution spectra of 8 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed with INT we found that shapes of narrow emission lines indicate very complex structure of the Narrow Line Region (NLR). We resolved, at least two kinematically separated emission regions: (i) one with narrower lines (~100 km/s) with shift that follows cosmological red-shift of

Radial velocities of 40 intracluster planetary nebulae (ICPNs) in the Virgo Cluster were obtained with the new multifiber FLAMES spectrograph on UT2 at the Very Large Telescope. For the first time, the λ4959 line of the [O III] doublet is seen in a large fraction (50%) of ICPNs spectra, and a large fraction of the photometric candidates with m(5007

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The SUNRISE balloon project is a high-resolution mission to study solar magnetic fields able to resolve the critical scale of 100 km in the solar photosphere, or about one photon mean free path. The Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) is one of the three instruments that will fly in the balloon and will receive light from the 1m aperture