Context. Non-radial oscillations, observed in thousands of red giants by the space missions CoRoT and Kepler, allow us to greatly improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution in cool low-mass stars. The currently available Kepler light curves contain an outstanding amount of information, but a detailed analysis of the individual

Recent high-resolution and high-cadence observations have surprisingly suggested that prominence barbs exhibit apparent rotating motions suggestive of a tornado-like structure. Additional evidence has been provided by Doppler measurements. The observations reveal opposite velocities for both hot and cool plasma on the two sides of a prominence barb

We undertake a study of M51 ULX-7, using archival data from XMM-Newton, Chandra and NuSTAR, and optical and radio data from HST and VLA. The source has a consistently hard powerlaw X-ray spectrum with Γ˜1.5 and has high short-term variability, with all XMM-Newton observations having 30-40 percent rms. This is unusual variability behaviour for a ULX

We report the discovery of SDSS J131326.89-001941.4, an ultra iron-poor red giant star ([Fe/H] ≃ -4.3) with a very high carbon abundance ([C/Fe] ≃ +2.5). This object is the fifth star in this rare class, and the combination of a fairly low effective temperature (Teff ≃ 5300 K), which enhances line absorption, with its brightness (g = 16.9), makes

We present a high-resolution elemental-abundance analysis for a sample of 23 very metal-poor ([Fe/H]

We estimate the morphology of near-side active regions using near-side helioseismology. Active regions from two data sets, Air Force Data Assimilative Photospheric flux Transport synchronic maps and Global Oscillation Network Group near-side helioseismic maps, were matched and their morphologies compared. Our algorithm recognizes 382 helioseismic