The Many Scales in the Universe

This book gathers the invited conferences presented at the Thirteenth Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM) organized by the - ropean Astronomical Society (EAS) and the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA) and hosted by the Instituto de - trofísica de Andalucía (IAA - CSIC). The event, held from September 13 to 17, 2004 in Granada, was at the same time the Sixth Scienti c Meeting of the SEA. The proceedings of such national meetings are traditionally collected in a series of books generically entitled Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics, which will be momentarily interrupted in this occasion as the contributions of the Spanish astronomers to the meeting share the present publication with those of their colleagues from other European countries or, to be more exact, from countries all over the world. The meeting brought together, indeed, more than 450 participants from 30 different countries, making it one of the most successful JENAMs ever celebrated. This success was undoubtedly due to the fact that, as readily seen from the titles of the parallel sessions, the scienti c scope of this JENAM reached, for the st time, all elds of astronomy and astrophysics. In fact, there was still another parallel session opened to tea- ers and professionals of popularisation in astronomy whose proceedings are published elsewhere.

Very relevant experts from all over the world speak in a single book about the most recent, exciting results from their fields

THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES: OPEN PROBLEMS.- THE GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EFFECT IN COSMOLOGY.- THE PLANCK MISSION.- SURVEYS OF EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES WITH PLANCK.- NEW PHYSICS IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES A New Dark Matter Component?.- EMISSION LINE GALAXIES IN CLUSTERS.- ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND SURVEYS: THE VIEW FROMTHE NEW X-RAY OBSERVATORIES.- STAR-FORMING COMPLEXES IN GALAXIES.- STAR FORMATION AND INFRARED EMISSION IN GALAXIES.- EVOLUTION OF THE MILKY WAY DISK.- MASSIVE STARS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER.- THE MASS SPECTRUM OF X-RAY BINARIES.- MASSIVE STARS IN STARBURSTS Radio Studies in Messier 82.- THE HOT CONTENT OF PLANETARY NEBULAE.- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF MASSIVE STARS.- WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THE SUN FROM OBSERVATIONS IN THE NEAR ULTRAVIOLET? Ground based polarimetry and the role of SUNRISE.- OUR MAGNETIC SUN.- MOIST CONVECTIVE STORMS IN THE ATMOSPHERES OF JUPITER AND SATURN Atmospheric storms in Jupiter and Saturn.- EXPLORING THE SOLAR SYSTEM BEYOND NEPTUNE.- PLANET DETECTION WITH LARGE TELESCOPES AND INTERFEROMETRY.- AVO FIRST SCIENCE Discovery of type 2 quasars.- EURO50: A EUROPEAN 50MADAPTIVE OPTICS EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE.