Relic galaxies are extremely compact early-type objects that have failed to accrete an extended envelope of stars. We observed the relic galaxy NGC 1277 with the integral field George and Cynthia Mitchel spectrograph (GCMS). The observations also include the regular early-type galaxy NGC 1278, which is used for comparison. We obtained resolved

The IAC in Tenerife is collaborating with an international consortium involving the University of Hawaii, MorphOptic (USA), Dynamical Intelligent Structures (DiSL, Canada) and two institutes in Lyon (CRAL@CNRS + INSA; France), to design the future $\geq$40m ExoLife Finder (ELF), an optical hybrid interferometer telescope. The objectives of ELF are

We present the results regarding the analysis of an intensive monitoring of the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) NGC 7469. We observed the source for 4 months with almost daily cadence in the ugriz bands, using the IO:O on the Liverpool Telescope. We measured the lags with respect to the u band and found a clear change in the lag spectrum between the

The large amounts of astrophysical data being provided by existing and future instrumentation require efficient and fast analysis tools. Transfer learning is a new technique promising higher accuracy in the derived data products, with information from one domain being transferred to improve the accuracy of a neural network model in another domain

Optical and near-IR photometry suggests that the carbon star DY Persei exhibits fadings similar to those of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) variables. Photometric surveys of the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds uncovered new DY Per variables with infrared photometry identifying them with cool carbon stars, perhaps, with an unusual tendency to shed mass. In an

2MASS J20395358+4222505 is a highly extincted (Av= 9.6 mag) early B-supergiant located in the nearest massive star forming region, Cyg-X, in the outskirts of the massive star association Cyg OB2. A mass of M= 46 M$_\odot$ and a luminosity of log(L/L$_\odot$)= 5.7 make it one of the most massive and luminous stars in the Milky Way. Interestingly