• Paco Najarro at the UCM: “The central black hole, massive stars, and other inhabitants of the Galactic Center.”

    Paco Najarro partipated in the Cycle of talks “Hablemos de Física” organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He shared his view on the Milky Way’s central blackhole and surrounding population of massive stars. The talk is available offline here.

  • CAB-masivas contributes to ASTRO2020

    The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine carried out the Astro2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, in order to identify the big research challenges of the next decade, and the technology needed to tackled them. CAB-masivas led a white paper on metal-poor massive stars, crucial objects to understand star formation accross Cosmic History and other relevant objects such as Gravitational Wave progenitors. The next breakthrough on metal-poor massive stars requires a large telescope in space with UV capabilities, such as LUVOIR.

    Check out CAB’s press release here.

    Studying massive stars in galaxies with ever decreasing metal content is one of the priority lines of reserach of CAB-masivas.
  • We meet our US and European colleagues at the IAC.

    CAB-masivas and other European colleagues met at the IAC in February 2019, seizing the great opportunity of Alex Fullerton’s visit to the IAC. As usual, the meeting became an exchange of progress reports, trouble-shooting work, experience on analysis techniques, and ideas for future projects, while having a great time with our friends.

    Massive cluster.
  • SPICA consortium meets at INTA

    Paco Najarro and the Spanish members of the SPICA consortium organized the 2018th Fall meeting at INTA. The meeting gathered more than 100 scientists and engineers from all over the world.

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    The SPICA/SAFARI Consortium Meeting was held in Madrid, at the Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), on September 24 – 26, 2018.

  • The Spanish consortium of massive stars meets in B(i)ar (Alicante).

    Farewell lunch.

    The Grupo Español de Estrellas MasivaS (GEEMAS) met in Biar (Alicante) in March 2018th. GEEMAS unites the Spanish experts on massive stars working in Spain or abroad. Our meetings provide the framework to report progress on our many lines of research, share our expertise on analysis techniques, and to discuss our long-term strategy as a group.

    Artemio Herrero and Amparo Marco. Artemio Herrero gave a talk on The first stars of the Universe.
    The youngsters.
    Paco and Miguel disagree on clumping.
    No clumping, everything smooth.