Submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) are some of the most extreme star-forming systems in the Universe, whose place in the framework of galaxy evolution is as yet uncertain. It has been hypothesized that SMGs are progenitors of local early-type galaxies, requiring that SMGs generally reside in galaxy cluster progenitors at high redshift. We test this

Michael Hoskin is the name of a scholar whose memory will remain forever linked to cultural astronomy. Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, where he first specialized in Isaac Newton and his 'Principia'. Later on, he would devoted a great deal of his efforts to the family of William Herschel, with

We present Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) spectroscopic observations of 95 galaxies from the Arp & Madore (1987) catalog of peculiar galaxies. These galaxies have been selected because they appear to be in pairs and small groups. These observations have enabled us to confirm that 60 galaxies are indeed interacting systems. For the

Desde el descubrimiento de que existen diferentes tipos de galaxias nos hemos preguntado sobre su formación y evolución. ¿Evolucionan de manera diferente las galaxias de distintos tamaños y masas? Las galaxias gigantes y masivas fueron las primeras en ser estudiadas, su alta luminosidad superficial permitió que los primeros telescopios las

Context. The winds of massive stars have a significant impact on stellar evolution and on the surrounding medium. The maximum speed reached by these outflows, the terminal wind speed v ∞, is a global wind parameter and an essential input for models of stellar atmospheres and feedback. With the arrival of the ULLYSES programme, a legacy UV

Context. The XShootU project aims to obtain ground-based optical to near-infrared spectroscopy of all targets observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) under the Director's Discretionary program ULLYSES. Using the medium-resolution spectrograph X-shooter, spectra of 235 OB and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in subsolar metallicity environments have been