We present updated calculations of stellar evolutionary sequences and detailed nucleosynthesis predictions for the brightest asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Galaxy with masses between 5 M &sun; and 9 M &sun;, with an initial metallicity of Z = 0.02 ([Fe/H] = 0.14). In our previous studies we used the Vassiliadis & Wood mass-loss rate

Images of the coma through continuum filters during EPOXI fly-by show that the comet's periodic activity is dominated by two active regions. They produce dust grains with a lifetime around 5 hours. The grains from one of these regions are very red.

The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system, and further infrastructure. The first science flight of SUNRISE yielded high-quality data that reveal the structure, dynamics, and evolution of solar convection, oscillations, and

We report the detection with Fermi-GBM (daily CTIME data, 12-25 keV band) of an X-ray burst from a location consistent with the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and thermonuclear burster 4U 1608-52. The burst peak occurred on May 2, 2012 at 06:47:54 UTC. The Fermi-GBM location of the burst is R.A.(J2000) = 241.3 deg, DEC(J2000) = -51.1 deg (1.8

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are interesting systems as they can host intermediate-mass black holes. Alternatively, ULXs can represent stellar mass black holes accreting at super-Eddington rates. Recently, spectral curvature or breaks at energies above a few keV have been detected in high-quality ULX spectra. These spectral features have been

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