The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies offer detailed insights into their stellar populations, capturing key physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation history (SFH), metallicity, and dust attenuation. However, inferring these properties from SEDs is a highly degenerate inverse problem, particularly when using integrated

Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We describe the design and early implementation of a survey to test whether planets also exist orbiting the remnant stars of ancient dwarf galaxies that merged with the

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 known objects. Quantitative spectroscopy of the stars revealed half of these WR stars to be strong sources of He II ionizing flux, but the average metallicity of the SMC

We revisit the Quasar Main Sequence (QMS) by investigating the impact of the stellar component from the host galaxy (HG) on the emission line spectra of the active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We first detect spectra with broad emission lines using a line ratio method for a sample of $\sim$3000 high SNR ( $>$20) black hole mapper objects (part of the

Context. Erupting flux ropes play a crucial role in powering a wide range of solar transients, including flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections. These events are driven by the release of stored magnetic energy, facilitated by the shear in complex magnetic topologies. However, the mechanisms governing the formation and eruption of flux ropes

Context. The overwhelming majority of cataclysmic variables (CVs) have orbital periods shorter than 10 h. However, a few have much longer orbital periods, and their formation and existence pose certain challenges for the CV evolution models. These extremely long-period CVs must host nuclearly evolved donor stars (i.e., subgiants), as the companion