The detection and number estimates of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) provide important constraints on the hierarchical models for galaxy formation and...

We are currently conducting a survey of 25 Galactic globular clusters with MUSE, the panoramic integral-field spectrograph at the ESO VLT. Although the...

According to standard evolutionary theory, cataclysmic variables (CV) evolve from longer to shorter orbital periods until a minimum period P_min is reached. The...

Galaxy clusters are the perfect places to study both the always controversial nature vs nurture problem and the still not well understood evolution that...

I will talk about our current understanding of globular cluster (GC) formation and what we have yet to learn about them. I will particularly focus on the...

I will present a story of how a chance observing run kicked off more than a decade of exploration of the dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds, leading to the...

This presentation will describe the subsystems of the Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory (TMT), with a focus on the technical aspects. In general, large...

Increasing light pollution is a threat to the research capacity of astronomical observatories. The case of the Teide observatory is not an exception, despite...

The active galactic nuclei is conformed by a number of classes. Optically they are defined using diagnostics based on optical emission lines. At X-rays they are...