The ALHAMBRA project, whose Principal Investigator is Professor Mariano Moles (Astrophysical Institute of Andalusia, Granada) and is performed with the 3.5 m telescope of Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), has obtained an impressive image of the outstanding spiral galaxy M74, an object placed at approximately 30 millions of light-years from Earth, in the constellation Pisces...
Calar Alto invites the community to participate in the Calar Alto Instrumentation Workshop on the next generation instrument for the 3.5m. This workshop will take place in Granada, June 11-13, will gather ideas for future instrumentation, and will precede a Call for Proposals for instruments.
NGC 2366 is a dwarf galaxy placed at a distance of 11 millions of light-years (3.4 millions of parsecs). Its irregular shape and stellar content make it similar to the Magellanic Clouds, the two irregular dwarf galaxies very close to our own. For scale, NGC 2366 is about 20 000 light-years wide, what makes it twice as large as the Large Magellanic Cloud, and four times larger than the Small Magellanic Cloud, but still classified as a dwarf galaxy...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most famous character, the Little Prince, lived on a volcanic asteroid whose volcanoes the Prince took care of. But real asteroids are seldom volcanic. Or are they? There are reasons to think that these objects should not be so scarce after all. Recent studies based on Calar Alto data are helping to unveil the existence of more of these volcanic tiny worlds, some of them with exotic and puzzling traits…
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