We present an overview of and status report on XSL, the X-Shooter Spectral Library. XSL is an ESO Large Programme that is using the X-Shooter three-beam...

Context. Open clusters are groups of coeval stars sharing properties such as distance and metallicity, and they are key to understanding stellar evolution. Aims...

Recent results from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resolved starbursts as collections of compact young stellar clusters. Here we present a photometric...