SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, is one of three instruments to fly on the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory. It contains a three-band imaging photometer operating at 250, 350 and 500 μm, and an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer covering 194 672 μm. The SPIRE detectors are arrays of feedhorn-coupled

We present data for single and binary massive stars, both from new analyses (Trapezium stars, O stars in NGC 6611, and the massive binary system V478 Cyg) and collected from the literature. We show that data for single stars depart from the theoretical ZAMS, while those for binary systems are consistent with a ZAMS formed through a linearly mass

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This contribution to the IV Korea-Mexico meeting deals with the hydrodynamics of the matter reinserted within super star clusters (SSCs) by both stellar winds and supernova explosions, results recently printed in The Astrophysical Journal (Silich et al. 2007). The motivation of such a project arose from the persistent presence of the small mass and

Recent observations show that the number of stars with very low metallicities in the dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way is low, despite the low average metallicities of stars in these systems. We undertake numerical simulations of star formation and metal enrichment of dwarf galaxies in order to verify whether this result can be

Currently, there are a dozen known spatially resolved nebulae around symbiotic stars. We summarize their properties, focusing on their dynamical ones. Then, new results about the determination of the expansion in the plane of the sky of the nebulae around Hen 2-104 and Hen 2-147, which allows us to gain important information about their dynamics