All the elements from carbon to uranium present in the Solar System were produced by hundreds to thousands of stars belonging to different stellar generations...
The Life Cycle of Matter in the Magellanic Clouds: Insights from Spitzer and Herschel
The life cycle of baryonic matter in a galaxy is driven by the exchange of material between the interstellar medium (ISM) and stars, which are the agents of...
The local dusty environment of active galactic nuclei
Dust reprocesses the intrinsic radiation of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to emerge at longer wavelengths. The mid-infrared (MIR) luminosity depends broadly on...
The Local Universe from Calar Alto (LUCA) with CASE
CASE (Calar Alto Spectroscopic Explorer) is a new set of instruments for the Calar Alto observatory to unravelling the fine structure of galaxies in the local...
The loopy Sun: resolving the small-scale solar magnetism
Solar magnetism may look deceptively boring (a rather common star with relatively low activity). As it turns out, even the most quiet areas of the Sun (away...
The Luminous Blue Variable HR Car Just Got Married!
Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are massive stars caught in a post-main sequence phase, during which they are losing a significant amount of mass. Given the...
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE, formerly Next Generation CFHT) is a project to upgrade the CFHT into a survey telescope with a 11.25-meter mirror and...
The MESSIER surveyor: lifting the veil on the ultra low surface brightness universe
The S-class MESSIER satellite has been designed to explore the extremely low surface brightness universe at UV and optical wavelengths. The two driving science...
The Mg/Fe characterisation of MILES library for stellar population
The current databases of empirical star spectra for modelling single-aged stellar populations (SSPs) generally do not chemically characterize their stars...