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I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was recently approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee, together with Euclid and Solar Orbiter missions, to enter the so-called definition phase, i.e.

Dust particles exist in a wide variety of scenarios ranging from the Earth's atmosphere to other planetary and cometary atmospheres in the Solar System, interplanetary medium, reflection nebulae, circumstellar disks, etc.

The molecular gas content of local early-type galaxies is constrained and discussed in relation to their evolution.

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ALMA is going to start its Early Science Observations during 2011 and a Call for Early Science with its compact array will be issued at the end of this year. At the same time, CASA, the software that ALMA users will have at their disposal, is being continuously developed.

In the final stages of stellar evolution low- to intermediate-mass stars lose their envelope in increasingly massive stellar winds.

OCTOCAM is a high time-resolution multi-channel instrument that is being proposed for the 10.4m GTC telescope. It will perform simultaneous observations in 8 bands, covering the complete spectrum from the ultraviolet (u-band) to the near infrared (K-band) in a single exposure.

This is a talk I gave last October in Freiburg as the opening key-note lecture of the "1st EAST-ATST Workshop".

The Galactic center is a unique target for studying the properties of the nuclei of galaxies in general. The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, that is located at the dynamical center of the Milky Way is surrounded by the densest and most massive star cluster of our Galaxy.

High spectral resolution evolutionary synthesis models have become a routinely used ingredient in extragalactic work, and as such deserve thorough testing. Star clusters are ideal laboratories for such tests.

In this talk, I present a review of the current status of the very recent line of research linking stellar seismology and exoplanet search. I give a summary of the main exoplanet searching techniques and a general overview of stellar seismology.

Nowadays, following years of technological development, Virtual Observatory standards, resources, and services became powerful enough to help astronomers making real science on everyday basis.

I will present new results on the integrated stellar populations of bulges, bars and disks of spiral galaxies from long-slit spectroscopic observations.

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to photons in the energy range 30 MeV to >300 GeV. It was launched on June 11th 2008 and has now been successfully operating for over a year and made breakthrough discoveries in high energy astrophysics.

I present a large-scale spectral survey that is currently obtaining spectra of all known Galactic O stars down to B=13 with R=3000.

Relativistic jets in AGN are the most energetic and among the most powerful astrophysical objects known so far.

High-resolution radio observations of the nuclear regions of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) have shown that their radio structure consists of a compact high surface-brightness central radio source inmersed in a diffuse low brightness circumnuclear halo.

We'll describe the design and science case for the XMS spectrograph at the prime focus of the 3.5-m Calar Alto telescope that can deliver at least 4000 MOS slits simultaneously over a 1-deg field.