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7 years ago

Fireball Moon Venus
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Operations image of the week: Lucky timing led to this brilliant photo, showing our Moon and the planet Venus, together with a meteor burning up in the atmosphere over Belgium
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7 years ago

Artificial Sun
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Space Science Image of the Week: Demonstrating that the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can endure extreme temperatures
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7 years ago

A milestone in securing ESA’s future role in the global exploration of space
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Over the past 18 months, ESA and its Member States have gathered in a series of space exploration workshops culminating in a discussion in the ESA Council held in Paris on 13 June 2018. The Council discussed Europe’s ambition to play a leading role in the global exploration of space based on its European Exploration Envelope Programme, (known as E3P) that was created by ESA’s ministers when they met in December 2016 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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7 years ago

Hidden secrets
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Space Science Image of the Week: Herschel reveals massive stars hidden in a dark bubble, triggering the birth of a new stellar generation
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7 years ago

Week In Images
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Our week through the lens: 14 - 18 May 2018
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7 years ago

A space ant fires its lasers
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A rare phenomenon connected to the death of a star has been discovered in observations made by ESA’s Herschel space observatory: an unusual laser emission from the spectacular Ant Nebula, which suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at its heart.
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7 years ago

ESA Planck team awarded prestigious prize
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The ESA Planck team has been honoured with the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize for its mission mapping the cosmic microwave background – relic radiation from the Big Bang that is still observable today.
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7 years ago

Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images
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Less than two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite has delivered its first images of Earth. Exceeding expectations, this first set of images include the sunset over Antarctica, sea ice in the Arctic and a view of northern Europe.
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7 years ago

Satellite pair arrive for Galileo’s next rumble in the jungle
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The next two satellites in Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system have arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of their planned launch from the jungle space base in July.
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7 years ago

Horizons vision
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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will begin his second mission next month. Why the name ‘Horizons’? Find out in this video
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