Intermediate mass stars, in their last phases of evolution ("AGB stars"),produce a large number of heavy elements (rich in neutrons), some ofthem radioactive...
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NewsCircumstellar effects on the Rubidium abundances in massive AGB stars.
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NewsCollision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky object
Hayabusa2’s optical navigation camera (ONC) found many anomalously bright boulders on the dark surface of the carbonaceous (or C-type) asteroid Ryugu...
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NewsColouring asteroid Bennu
The main objective of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is the collection of material from the surface of primitive asteroid (101955) Bennu, and to bring it back to...
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NewsConfinement of interstellar dust in galactic bars
Tests have been carried out for the first time on the hypothesis that the structure of interstellar dust around galactic bars is determined by the velocity...
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NewsConfirming new physics in space
The interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...
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NewsConfronting fuzzy dark matter with the rotation curves of nearby dwarf irregular galaxies
Dark matter is an invisible substance that makes up more than eighty percent of the matter content of the universe. We know of its existence due to its...
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NewsConstraints on the dust extinction law of the Galaxy
This work explores data from a few surveys, most notably the serendipitous catalogue from the NASA SWIFT mission that made use of the NUV/optical camera UVOT...
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NewsCoRoT-9b, the first well-known temperate exoplanet.
The CoRoT satellite discovers the first Jupiter-like exoplanet, which can be studied in detail when it passes in front of its central star.The CoRoT satellite...
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NewsCosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave Emission
The main emission mechanisms of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the spectral range between the radio and the far infrared are very well characterised and...