Uncovering star formation feedback and magnetism in galaxies with radio continuum surveys
Recent studies show the importance of the star formation feedback in changing the energetic and structure of galaxies. Dissecting the physics of the feedback is...
Uncovering the birth of the Milky Way through accurate stellar ages with Gaia
Accurate distances to individual Milky Way stars provided by Gaia have allowed us to derive stellar age distributions from colour─magnitude diagrams (CMD)...
Early-type galaxies are thought to be among the oldest known stellar systems, and as such have experienced the full diversity of evolutionary mechanisms at work...
Understanding Circumnuclear Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies
We are attempting to learn the circumstances under which bursts of star formation may be triggered around the nuclei of many nearby spiral galaxies. By...
Understanding Galactic planetary nebulae with precise/reliable nebular abundances
We compare recent precise/reliable nebular abundances - as derived from high-quality optical spectra and the most recent ICFs - in a sample of Galactic...
Understanding Infrared Galaxy Populations: the SWIRE Legacy Survey
We discuss spectral energy distributions, photometric redshifts, redshift distributions, luminosity functions, source-counts and the far infrared to optical...
Planes of satellites are observed in the Milky Way and Andromeda, and recent observations claim their presence as well in other nearby galactic systems...