The Kepler mission has made an important observation: the first detection of photons from a terrestrial planet by observing its phase curve (Kepler-10b). This opens a new field in exoplanet science: the possibility of obtaining information about the atmosphere and surface of rocky planets, objects of prime interest. In this Letter, we apply the

The Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) is an internationalnetwork project aiming to place eight 1 m robotic telescopes around the globe,with the primary objectives of studying stellar oscillations and planetsusing ultra-precision radial velocity measurements.The prototype of SONG will be installed and running at the Observatoriodel Teide by

The Tarantula FLAMES Survey is an ESO Large Program aimed at disentangling the role of binarity in the evolution of massive stars. We have multiepoch, high resolution and SNR observations of about 1000 massive OB stars in 30 Dor secured with the FLAMES spectrograph at VLT. In this poster we present a general view of the project and the main

We investigate the morphologies, masses and possible correlations between these two properties for 108 extremely red galaxies (EROs) found in the Groth strip. The photometric data include U, B, F606W, F814W, J, and K_s bands. The EROs were selected on the basis of their extremely red colour, F814W-K_s ≥ 4 and K_s ≤ 21.0. Morphologies are based on a

We present early- and late-time photometric and spectroscopic observations of supernova (SN) 2009hd in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 3627 (M66). This SN is one of the closest to us in recent years and provides an uncommon opportunity to observe and study the nature of SNe. However, the object was heavily obscured by dust, rendering it unusually

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