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Part of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, which in turn is part of the large HII region IC1396 in the constellation Cepheus, seen in H-alpha. Credit: Nick Wright (UCL). More information.

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LATEST NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

16-19 May, 2006. Conference on The nature of V838 Mon and its light echo at La Palma, organised by ING.
24 January. Seminar at ING: The QSO HE1013-2136 (z = 0.785): tracing the ULIRG - QSO connection towards large look-back times?
13 January. WHT and TNG Observations Prove that the Large Trans-Neptunian Object 2005 FY9 is Very Similar to Pluto.
22 December. University of Utrecht will lead the construction of a high-accuracy polarimeter for direct exoplanetary detection at the WHT (in Dutch).
14 November. Seminar at ING: New developments in CCD technology.
27 October. SWIRE: Piecing Together the Universe's History with Wide-Infrared Eyes, using data from Spitzer Space Telescope and the Isaac Newton Telescope. Image release.
24 October. Seminar at ING: Features and performance of the Copenhagen generation 3 array-controller.
14 October. Specialist Discussion Meeting on "Science from La Palma - Looking beyond 2009", at Burlington House, London, organised by the Royal Astronomical Society and ING.

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