Talk format: Colloquium

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    The Golden Mass of Galaxies and Black Holes
    This talk will address the preferred mass and time for galaxy formation, in dark-matter haloes similar to that of the Milky way but when the Universe was a few...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope: a cosmic story for the ages
    On December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched from Earth towards its ultimate destination at the L2 Lagrange Point, 1.5 million kilometers...
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    The Mass Accretion Rate on Young Stellar Objects: the challenge of the early stages
    One of the most fundamental questions in astronomy is how stars, the building blocks of the Universe, form. We generally understand that stars emerge from dense...
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    The multiple routes of galaxy transformation across the cosmic epochs
    In the local universe most of the stellar mass is in passive galaxies, where star formation isabsent or at very low levels. Understanding what are the...
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    The origin of Fast X-ray Transients
    Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are minute-to-hours long flashes of X-rays, first discovered serendipitously in X-ray satellite data (mainly Chandra and XMM-Newton...
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    The WEAVE-TwiLight Survey: Unravelling Links Between Host Star Chemistry and Planet Formation
    Stars and planets formed within the same molecular cloud are inextricably linked in their composition. Alpha-process elements shape planetary cores and...