A red inter-loper has been detected in the vicinity of the faint Tremendous Outburst Amplitude Dwarf (TOAD) AL Comae, with a 3.95 arc-seconds separation between the center of both systems. New infrared photometry was taken with the 2.1m IRIM camera on the observation nights of July 11 and 12 of 1997. Analysis of this data shows that the previously

Aims: We study the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity on the chemistry of molecular gas in NGC 1068, a nearby (D = 14 Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by analyzing whether the abundances of key molecular species such as ethynyl (C2H), which is a classical tracer of photon dominated regions (PDR), change in the different environments of

The object CXOM31 J004245.9+411036, reported as a new X-ray source in ATel #1859 from M31 Chandra observations, is the previously reported XMMU J004245.9+411036 (Pietsch et al. 2008, ATel #1647). We thank W. Pietsch and M. Henze for kindly bringing this clerical error to our attention. This transient source has been observed by various space

We present first preliminary results from AKARI/FIS pointed observations of post-AGB stars and planetary nebulae (PNe). A first analysis of the radial (azimuthally averaged) profile of the observed sources shows no evidence for excess emission due to the presence of circumstellar dust. No (detached) circumstellar faint dust-shells are seen in the

We present an atlas of position-velocity (PV) diagrams of ionized gas in the inner regions of 23 disk galaxies. The gas kinematics have been obtained from ground-based long-slit spectra along the major axis. We discuss the variety of shapes of the emission lines in the PV diagrams that we find for the sample galaxies. To discuss the different

Aims: We aim at constraining evolutionary models at low mass and young ages by identifying interesting transiting system members of the nearest OB association to the Sun, Upper Scorpius (USco), which has been targeted by the Kepler mission. Methods: We produced light curves for M-dwarf members of the USco region that has been surveyed during the