• 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.
  • SPICA 2019: “Exploring the Infrared Universe: The Promise of SPICA”.

    Paco Najarro and other CAB scientists in the SAFARI-SPICA consortium attended the SPICA 2019 conference “Exploring the Infrarred Universe: The Promise of SPICA”. The conference was held on 20th-23rd May at the Island of Crete, Greece.

    Paco Najarro and María del Mar Rubio presented a poster reviewing the potential of all SPICA instruments to study massive stars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies.
    Full poster.
  • CAB-masivas travels to Edinburgh

    Attendees of the FLAMES Consortium meeting held at the Higgs Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 13 – 15 May 2019.

    Paco Najarro and Miriam García will be attending the 12th annual meeting of the European consortium VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey held at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh.

    The consortium discussed future lines of development for the collaboration.