The stochastic, intermittent nature of quiet Sun magnetism
The quiet Sun (the 99%, or more, of the solar surface not covered by sunspots or active regions) is receiving increased attention in recent years; its role on...
The transmission spectrum of the Earth from lunar eclipse observations: the pale red dot
Of the 342 planets discovered so far orbiting other stars, 58 'transit' the stellar disk, meaning that they can be detected by a periodic decrease in the...
Very High Energy emission at the Cosmic Gamma Ray Horizon: a MAGIC discovery happened thanks to gravitational lensing
The Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes reported the discovery of the most distant gamma-ray source ever observed at very high...
Which galaxies host bars and disks? A study of the Coma Cluster ; (2)First results of Herschel and the HerMES extragalactic survey
(1) In this talk I will present a recent study of the bar fraction in the Coma Cluster galaxies based on a sample of 190 galaxies selected from the Sloan...