Red giants, chemical clocks of the Milky Way

Red giants, chemical clocks of the Milky Way

Red giants, chemical clocks of the Milky Way A broad effort is ongoing with large spectroscopic surveys such as APOGEE, Gaia-ESO, GALAH, LAMOST from which stellar parameters, radial velocities and detailed chemical abundances can be measured for CoRoT, Kepler, and K2...
3D imaging of the emission from the inner ejecta of SN1987A

3D imaging of the emission from the inner ejecta of SN1987A

3D imaging of the emission from the inner ejecta of SN1987A Supernova SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud offers an unprecedented opportunity to research on fundamental issues of supernova explosions: dust and molecule formation, interaction with the circumstellar...
Shedding light upon our Galaxy and its past with Gaia

Shedding light upon our Galaxy and its past with Gaia

Shedding light upon our Galaxy and its past with Gaia As promised, the excellent precision and large amount of data delivered by the Gaia satellite have allowed us to progress outstandingly on the studies of our Galaxy during this first year of scientific harvest...