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The theory of radiatively driven winds successfully explains the key points of the stellar winds of hot massive stars. However, there is an apparent break-down of this paradigm at log L/L_&odot

We present results on the evolution of the structural parameters of two samples of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the last 6 Gyr. The nearby sample of BCGs consists of 69 galaxies from the WINGS survey spanning a redshift range of 0.04 z 0.07. The intermediate-redshift (0.3 z 0.6) sample is formed by 20 BCGs extracted from the Hubble

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have high and homogeneous luminosities, making them an essential tool for measuring distances on a cosmic scale, useful to gauge the geometry and evolution of the Universe. However, the nature of the progenitor system of these explosions is still uncertain. The consensus view is that SNe Ia originate from an accreting

With the use of N-body calculations, the numbers and properties of escaping stars from low-N (N= 100 and 1000) young embedded star clusters prior to gas expulsion are studied over the first 5 Myr of their existence. Besides the numbers of stars, different initial radii and binary populations are also examined as well as virialized and collapsing

CoRoT and Kepler missions are collecting data of solar-like oscillating stars of unprecedented quality. Moreover, thanks to the length of the time series, we are able to study their seismic variability. In this work we use numerical simulations based on the last 3 solar cycles to analyze the light curves as a function of the line-of-sight