Characterisation of atmospheres undergoing photo-evaporation is key to understanding the formation, evolution, and diversity of planets. However, only a few upper atmospheres that experience this kind of hydrodynamic escape have been characterised. Our aim is to characterise the upper atmospheres of the hot Jupiters HAT-P-32b and WASP-69 b, the

In the last decades important improvements have been made towards better access and working conditions for women in science. However, we are still far from reaching gender equality in the scientific field. We still suffer from gender stereotypes during childhood, subtle gender bias in academic and scientific evaluations, unequal work-life

Massive stars condition the evolution of the interstellar medium by the amount of energy released during their lives and especially by their deaths as supernova explosions. The vast amounts of spectroscopic data for massive stars provided by previous and existing instruments on ground-based and space-based telescopes have already saturated our

In this contribution, we will show our results from a sample of 20 pairs of nearby seemingly isolated twin galaxies differing in nuclear activity. Firstly, we present a comparison of the parameter of the spin ($\lambda_{R}$), measured in a region dominated by the galaxy disc. This parameter allows us to assess the rotational support of a galaxy

We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TOI-2025 (TIC 394050135), TOI-2145 (TIC 88992642), TOI-2152 (TIC 395393265), TOI-2154 (TIC 428787891), and TOI-2497 (TIC 97568467). All six planets orbit bright host stars

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) are stellar systems where a neutron star or a black hole accretes mass from a low-mass ($\lesssim$ 1M$_\odot$) donor star. A subclass, so-called X-ray transients, spend most of their lives in a dim, quiescent state. However, these systems go into sporadic, powerful outbursts produced by one of the most energetic