Climate variability of the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea during the last deglaciation has been reconstructed from a marine sediment core MD04-2722 (33°09 N; 33°49 E, 1780 m w.d.) retrieved in the Levant basin. A multi-proxy approach provided records of surface waters conditions and of detrital inputs to the core location through chemical

The complexities of ultracool atmospheres are best confronted by observations of ultracool dwarfs (UCDs) with well known physical properties (luminosity, mass, Teff, log(g), [M/H]), so-called ``benchmark objects.'' We present two discoveries from a new WISE+2MASS search for benchmark wide companions to Hipparcos and Gliese stars. This survey

We present new radio, optical, and X-ray observations of three ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) that are associated with large-scale nebulae. We report the discovery of a radio nebula associated with the ULX IC 342 X-1 using the Very Large Array (VLA). Complementary VLA observations of the nebula around Holmberg II X-1, and high-frequency

Context. The tumbling pattern of a bar is the main parameter characterising its dynamics. From numerical simulations, its evolution since bar formation is tightly linked to the dark halo in which the bar is formed through dynamical friction and angular momentum exchange. Observational measurements of the bar pattern speed with redshift can restrict

More than 2000 stars distributed in the field of view of 35 planetary nebulae, and 31 stars from the spectral catalog of Jacoby et al. (1984, Cat. III/92) were observed with the LDSS2 (Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph) at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma, Spain. (1 data file).

Context. The properties of variable stars can give independent constraints on the star formation history of the host galaxy, by determining the age and metallicity of the parent population. Aims: We investigate the pulsation properties of 84 Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) detected by the OGLE-III survey in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in order to