Umbral flashes are sudden brightenings commonly visible in the core of some chromospheric lines. Theoretical and numerical modeling suggests that they are...
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NewsDownflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbrae
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NewsDual dust chemistry around evolved stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud
During the final stages of their lives, stars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). AGB...
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NewsDust in the central parsecs of unobscured AGN provides more challenges to the torus
The black holes at the centres of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them...
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NewsEfficient Bayesian inference of the evolving cosmic web from galaxy surveys
We present COSMIC BIRTH (COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models): an algorithm to reconstruct the...
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NewsESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
Red dwarfs are the most common stars in the galaxy. In recent years they have become key targets in the search for exoplanets. These stars are usually...
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NewsEvidence of the impact of quasar driven outflows on recent star formation
We present the results of our spatially resolved investigation into the interplay between the ages of the stellar populations and the kinematics of the warm...
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NewsExploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
Galaxy formation remains one of the major open problems in astrophysics today. There is a wide range of mechanisms that control the transformation of gas into...
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NewsFullerenes in the IC 348 star cluster of the Perseus molecular cloud
We present the detection of fullerenes C60 and C70 in the star-forming region IC 348 of the Perseus molecular cloud. Mid-IR vibrational transitions of C60 and...
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NewsHard-state Accretion Disk Winds from Black Holes
Accretion disc winds are observed in accreting black holes across the full range of masses. In stellar-mass black holes, X-ray winds have been recently...