Solar activity has become of increasing importance in our modern society, as many aspects of today's technology could be affected by eruptive phenomena associated with solar magnetic variability. State of the art solar instrumentation is revealing the dynamics of the Sun with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolutions. This volume includes recent results in solar physics research presented at the IAU Symposium 327, the first IAU symposium held in Colombia, in the historical city of Cartagena de Indias, one of the oldest in the Americas. Its main scientific goal was to discuss recent...

The variable activity of stars such as the Sun is mediated through stellar magnetic fields, radiative and energetic particle fluxes, stellar winds and magnetic storms manifested as stellar flares and coronal mass ejections. This activity influences planetary atmospheres, climate and habitability: on the one hand it drives life-sustaining processes on planets, but on the other hand can adversely impact planetary environments rendering them uninhabitable. Studies of this intimate relationship between the parent star, its astrosphere and the planets that it hosts have reached a certain level of...

The cataclysmic stellar explosion SN 1987A, visible to naked eye, was the nearest and brightest supernova witnessed since the invention of the telescope four centuries ago. This volume deals with supernovae and their remnants, in terms of exceptional phenomena that produce and release high-energy nuclei and particles. Marking the thirtieth anniversary of SN 1987A, the proceedings of IAU Symposium 331 introduce our accumulating knowledge on these central sources in many active fields of investigation: stellar evolution and the diversity of supernova progenitors and their properties, explosive...

Reviews ESA's Gaia mission activities to measure the distances and ages of a billion stars with unprecedented accuracy.

Presents an overview of the advances in space weather, linking cross-disciplinary research in solar, heliospheric and planetary physics.

IAU S337 reflects on pulsars as unique physical laboratories and the exciting opportunities they offer in the coming decades.

Reviews how observations of organic molecules in space, numerical models and laboratory studies are used to study the Universe's evolution.

Presents a summary of the astrometric, spectroscopic and photometric surveys that will unveil Milky Way's inner- and outermost regions.

Addresses the latest observations and science around the Epoch of Reionization, the weak cosmological radiation from the first 'stars'.

Summarizes state of the art observations and theories pertaining to astrophysical masers and their environments, for graduate students and researchers.