The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope (AtLAST) is a mature concept for the next generation 50-meter class single-dish astronomical observatory operating at submillimetre wavelengths, powered by renewable energy and run as a facility telescope by an international partnership. AtLAST will open a new discovery space in numerous fields of

Data and considerations are presented about the sustainability of astronomical observatories in the Spanish territory. While still not comparable to other science institutions, the energy consumption of large telescopic installations is high. To partially compensate it, effort has been put into producing in situ green energy, taking advantage of

In July 2024, SUNRISE completed its third successful science flight. The SUNRISE III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013, to tackle the most recent science challenges concerning the solar atmosphere. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and

We report on the detection of optical/near-infrared (O-IR) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the black hole (BH) X-ray transient Swift J1727.8–1613. We obtained three X-ray and O-IR high-time-resolution observations of the source during its intermediate state (2023 September 9, 15, and 17) using NICER, HAWK-I@VLT, HIPERCAM@GTC, and ULTRACAM

The most probable outcome of planetary formation is a sub-Neptune, a body with a radius between 2.0 and 3.5 Earth radii. This type of exoplanet has no counterpart in the Solar System, but they are very common elsewhere, and many of them have been observed to potentially host habitable surface conditions. Population studies have revealed a scarcity

High-resolution helioseismology observations with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provide a unique three-dimensional view of the solar interior structure and dynamics, revealing a tremendous complexity of the physical processes inside the Sun. We present an overview of the results of the HMI