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This Letter presents an analysis of three-dimensional vector currents and temperatures observed in a sunspot from the photosphere to the chromosphere, spanning a range of heights of approximately 1500 km. With this unique data set, based on novel spectropolarimetric observations of the 850 nm spectral region, it is possible to conduct for the first

According to several properties, the active regions are divided in two groups whose limit is roughly set at 1021 Mx. A statistical analysis indicates that the small regions emerge almost exclusively in the remnant magnetic regions, resulting from the decay of previous active centers. According to these facts, a tentative picture is proposed, where

To investigate the location of the actual limit for the different behavior, the active regions with fluxes greater than 10 to the 20 Mx are investigated. After surveying the differences between large and small active regions reported in the literature, the birthplaces of the active regions are analyzed statistically. The analysis indicates that the

Photometric observations made by the NASA Kepler Mission have led to a dramatic increase in the number of main-sequence and subgiant stars with detected solar-like oscillations. We present an ensemble asteroseismic analysis of 76 solar-type stars. Using frequencies determined from the Kepler time-series photometry, we have measured three

Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the first systematic studies of solar-like pulsators, have boosted the impact of this field of research within astrophysics and have led to a significant increase in the size of the research