The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO public near-IR variability survey that is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the Galactic mid-plane. The survey will take 1929 hours of observations with the VISTA 4.1-m telescope during five years, covering a billion point sources across an area of 520 sqdeg, including 36

The Tarantula survey is an ESO Large Programme which has obtained multi-epochs spectroscopy of over 800 massive stars in the 30 Dor region in the Large Magelanic Cloud. Here we briefly describe the main drivers of the survey and the observational material derived.

We describe the aims and contents of the book entitled "The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere". This is a volume in the IAGA Special Book Series dedicated to the science covered by IAGA Division IV, Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field. The book features review articles on topics from the interior of the Sun to the outermost regions of the

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We present the discovery of a new planetary nebula from the IPHAS survey. The remarkable morphology of its inner regions, which display a bright knotty ring surrounded by high excitation gas, led to the object's nickname, the ``Necklace nebula''. The finding of a binary central star with an orbital period of 1.16 days makes it a new clear example

The IACOB spectroscopic survey of Galactic OB stars is an ambitious observational project aimed at compiling a large, homogeneous, high-resolution database of optical spectra of massive stars observable from the Northern hemisphere. The quantitative spectroscopic analysis of this database, complemented by the invaluable information provided by Gaia