In 1981, the idea of a superwind that ends the life of cool giant stars was proposed1. Extreme oxygen-rich giants, OH/IR stars, develop superwinds with the highest mass-loss rates known so far, up to a few 10-4 solar masses (M⊙) per year2-12, informing our understanding of the maximum mass-loss rate achieved during the asymptotic giant branch (AGB)

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project of a new-generation solar telescope. It has a large aperture of 4 m, which is necessary for achieving high spatial and temporal resolution. The high polarimetric sensitivity of the EST will allow to measure the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere with unprecedented precision. Here, we summarise the

We examine star formation activity in a distant (z 0.1) and flux-limited sample of quasars (QSOs). Midinfrared (MIR) spectral diagnostics at high spatial resolution (∼0.4 arcsec) yield star formation rates (SFRs) in the inner regions (∼300 pc–1 kpc) for 13 of 20 of the sample members. We group these objects according to the size probed by the high

We present the discovery of Qatar-7b—a very hot and inflated giant gas planet orbiting close to its parent star. The host star is a relatively massive main-sequence F-star with mass and radius {M}\star =1.41+/- 0.03 {M}ȯ and {R}\star =1.56+/- 0.02 {R}ȯ , respectively, at a distance d = 726 ± 26 pc, and an estimated age ∼1 Gyr. With its orbital

We report on optical spectroscopy obtained at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias of 28 Fermi γ-ray sources that completes the study of a sample of 60 targets of unidentified objects for which the detection of an X-ray and/or radio source inside the 3FGL error box is available. The observations aim to characterize the nature and measure the

We present the results of optical identifications and spectroscopic redshift measurements for galaxy clusters from the second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources. We used the data of observations with the 1.5-m Russian-Turkish telescope (RTT150), the 1.6-m Sayan Observatory AZT-33IK telescope, the 3.5-m Calar Alto telescope, and the 6-m