Astronomers with the European Space Agency (ESA) have hit upon a jackpot after their telescope, Euclid, captured high-resolution images of 26 million galaxies, opening up a huge treasure trove towards studying the dark universe. Launched in July 2023 and having commenced its scientific operations in February last year, the Euclid Mission is being led by […]
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The star of this interesting image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 1999, a reflection nebula around 1,350 light-years away in the constellation Orion. The reflection nebula is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The image was created using archival observations from 1999. […]
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The Solar Orbiter mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) had its last close approach to the Sun at around 12.42 AM today. But before it did. It took a sequence of images that depict the sun blazing in all its glory, popping and crackling with solar explosions. The sequence released by ESA contains […]
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The first European female commander on the International Space Station, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, answered young girls’ questions — accompanied by a lookalike Barbie doll. Cristoforetti recently took time to describe some of the experiments conducted aboard the ISS, as well as answer questions from five girls 8 to 11 years old from across Europe. […]
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Europe on Wednesday unveiled the first of a 4 billion euro ($4 billion) family of satellites designed to give earlier warning of extreme weather that has been causing havoc across the globe this year. The result of 12 years of development for the European Space Agency and 30-nation EUMETSAT, the MTG-I1 satellite will be launched […]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia’s Soyuz rockets. The private American competitor to Europe’s Arianespace has emerged as a key contender to plug a temporary gap alongside Japan […]
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express probe has captured images of the Valles Marineris, which is the largest canyon system in the Solar System. Valles Marineris is almost ten times longer, twenty times wider and five times deeper than the Grand Canyon. To put that into perspective, it spans a distance larger than that […]
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For months, the asteroid dubbed “2021 QM1” was at the top of risk lists around the globe. As far as we knew, there was a real chance of the space rock impacting Earth on April 2, 2052. But after a series of scientifically impressive observations and calculations, The European Space Agency’s (ESA) asteroid team working […]
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New images that use data from retired ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA missions show the dust that fills the space between stars in four galaxies closest to our own Milky Way. The striking pictures also lend insights into how dramatically the density of dust clouds can vary within a galaxy. Cosmic dust has a […]
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This image of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars shows a 30 kilimetre-wide which is nestled within a landscape of winding channels. Resembling veins running through a human eyeball, these channels are likely to have carried liquid water across the surface of the red planet around 3.5-4 billion years ago. […]
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