Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are of crucial importance to trace back the galaxy mass assembly across cosmic time, yet their formation and quenching remain remarkably elusive. The discoveries of massive, dead galaxies at ever-growing redshifts provided compelling evidence to push their formation up to redshift > 4-5 when the Universe was barely 1 Gyr

The MUSE TIMER Survey has obtained high signal and high spatial resolution integral-field spectroscopy data of the inner ~ 6×6 kpc of 21 nearby massive disc galaxies. This allows studies of the stellar kinematics of the central regions of massive disc galaxies that are unprecedented in spatial resolution. We confirm previous predictions from

The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP) focuses to publish an astronomical multiwavelength catalogue of millions of objects over 1300 deg 2 of the Herschel Space Observatory survey fields. Millions of galaxies with ultraviolet-far infrared photometry make HELP a perfect sample for testing spectral energy distribution fitting models, and to

Lithium in stars more massive than ∼6 M ☉ is expected to be totally depleted by the time when the stars reach the He core burning phase, as a consequence of rotationally induced mixing and other mechanisms. Some massive AGB stars present very high lithium abundances, a phenomenon explained by the activation of the Cameron-Fowler mechanism during

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While most of the exoplanets have been found orbiting around solar-type stars, low-mass stars have recently been recognized as ideal exo-life laboratory. Currently, stellar activity is one of the limiting factors for the characterization of Earth-twins and for assessing their habitability: understanding the activity of M dwarfs is thus crucial. In