We present observational evidence of apparent plasma rotational motions in the feet of a solar prominence. Our study is based on spectroscopic observations taken in the He I 1083.0 nm multiplet with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter attached to the German Vacuum Tower Telescope. We recorded a time sequence of spectra with 34 s cadence placing the

An increasing number of both photometric and spectroscopic observations over the last decade have shown the existence of distinct sub-populations in some Galactic globular clusters. This evidence severely challenges the paradigm of globular clusters as the prototypes of single, simple stellar populations. In this review, we briefly summarise the

We compare the details of the distributions of HI, Hα , and far-UV emission in the spiral arms of M81, at a resolution of about 9'' (linear resolution 150 pc at 3.7 Mpc distance). The effects of extinction on the morphology of the Hα and far-UV are shown to be essentially bi-modal, i.e. the extinction is either very small or very large. The

The brighter water masers of NGC 1068 appear to trace molecular gas in a parsec-scale disk surrounding the central engine. We find evidence that these masers are reverberating in response to a central, common pump source, presumably the central engine. Firstly, the luminosities of individual maser features are correlated on time-scales as fine as

The formation of quasar broad-line region (BLR) clouds via thermal instability in the presence of Alfvén heating has been discussed by Gonçalves, Jatenco-Pereira & Opher. In particular, these studies showed the relevance of Alfvén heating in establishing the stability of BLR clouds in the intercloud medium. The present paper shows the results of

I present our recent results on bulge evolution. (1) We have modeled the accretion of satellite galaxies onto disk-bulge-halo galaxies, and show that accretion-driven bulge growth generates two of the observed trends of galaxies along the Hubble sequence, namely the higher Sersic index toward more massive bulges, and the appearance of a thick disk