Theoretical, observational and laboratory work on the new form of carbon known as fullerenes and its hydrogenated forms (fulleranes) are reviewed. These molecules can be responsible of diffuse interstellar bands, the UV bump, a major feature in the extinction curves measured in many lines of sight in our Galaxy and other galaxies and the anomalous

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The details of your growing record of double star observations can easily be kept in a spreadsheet with columns included for position angle, separation, magnitude, and color. Those entries provide the raw data needed to describe your stellar journeys. However, the essence of what draws you to doubles may not be as obvious when you review your notes

We present the preliminary results of the ground-based (MegaCam@ CFHT) and space-based (ACS@HST) photometry for the Galactic globular cluster M71. By comparing data and theory, we found that the age (11.0±1.5Gyr) of M71 agrees well with the bulk of the more metal poor globular clusters.

We describe some aspects of the facility operation that have been considered for the design of the data handling and control of the European Solar Telescope. The main sub-systems of the EST relevant for the control are summarized, together with some information on current solar data models.

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