We analyse SAURON kinematic maps of the inner kpc of the early-type (Sa) barred spiral galaxy NGC 5448. The observed morphology and kinematics of the emission-line gas is patchy and perturbed, indicating clear departures from circular motion. The kinematics of the stars is more regular, and displays a small inner disk-like system embedded in a

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Recent XMM-Newton and Chandra observations have revealed that Jupiter's X-ray emission comprises both, thermal and non-thermal spectral components. While the emission from the low-latitude planetary disk has the properties of scattered solar X-rays, with a thermal spectrum and typical coronal emission lines, the auroral soft ( 2 keV) X-rays are

Imaging of the solar surface from ground based telescopes has achieved to be diffraction limited almost ten years ago, while diffraction-limited spectropolarimetry is, for obvious reasons of available flux, far from being reachable nowadays. Among the 1-meter class solar telescope currently in operation, THEMIS is the most specifically devoted to

Analysis of the Hanle effect in solar molecular lines allows us to obtain empirical information on unresolved, tangled magnetic fields at subresolution scales in the (granular) upflowing regions of the `quiet' solar photosphere. Here we show observations of scattering polarization in selected C_2 lines at increasingly closer distances to the solar

The structural parameters of the low surface brightness stellar host in Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies are often studied by fitting R1/n models to the outer regions of their radial profiles. The limitations imposed by the presence of a large starburst emission overlapping the underlying component makes this kind of analysis a difficult task. We