The off-centered bar and its single spiral arm are the most defining morphological features of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), prototype of the Magellanic Spirals. Fortunately, its proximity and the quality of the colour-magnitude diagrams from SMASH allow an unprecedented characterisation of its stellar populations covering its whole extension

Recent detections of thermal inversions in the dayside atmospheres of some hot Jupiters are motivating new avenues to understand the interplay between their temperature structures and other atmospheric conditions. In particular, TiO has long been proposed to cause thermal inversions in hot Jupiters, depending on other factors such as stellar

We present a comparison of the spin parameter λ R, measured in a region dominated by the galaxy disc, between 20 pairs of nearby (0.005 < z < 0.03) seemingly isolated twin galaxies differing in nuclear activity. We find that 80-82% of the active galaxies show higher values of λ R than their corresponding non-active twin(s), indicating larger

Black hole feedback results from the energy radiated at parsec scales from the centers of massive galaxies. Yet, this process is energetic enough to regulate the evolution of the host galaxy itself. We present here observational evidence suggesting that, in the most massive halos, black hole feedback from the central galaxy is able to drive the

A proto-cluster of Lyα emitting galaxies, spectroscopically confirmed at redshift 6.5, produces a remarkable number of ionising continuum photons. We find that the sources in the proto-cluster are capable of ionising a large bubble, indeed larger than the volume occupied by the proto-cluster.

We present the results of a 4-month, spectroscopic campaign of the Wolf-Rayet dust-making binary, WR137. We detect only small-amplitude random variability in the C III λ5696 emission line and its integrated quantities (radial velocity, equivalent width, skewness, and kurtosis) that can be explained by stochastic clumps in the wind of the WC star