Grooves found on Lutetia, an asteroid encountered by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, point to the existence of a large impact crater on the unseen side of the rocky world.
Rosetta flew past Lutetia at a distance of 3168 km in July 2010, en route to its 2014 rendezvous with its target comet.
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ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapour around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapour around an object in the asteroid belt.
With a diameter of 950 km, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But unlike most asteroids, Ceres is almost spherical and belongs to the … Read the rest of this article
Two X-ray space observatories, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.
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This artist’s concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our …
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ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on 5/6 January 2013. This image shows the asteroid in Herschel’s three PACS wavelengths: 70, 100 and 160 microns, respectively. Its closest pass, on 9 January 2013, brings it to 14.45 million km from Earth, 35–40 times that of the distance of the …
Astronomers around the world looked to the sky on the night of June 5th and morning of June 6th to observe Venus as it passed across the face of the Sun for the last time this century. ESA’s Sun-watching space missions also tuned in for the solar spectacular.
ESA’s Proba-2 microsatellite, in low-Earth orbit, tracked Venus across the solar disc … Read the rest of this article
Videos on this page come from a number of sources, but primarily Google and YouTube. This page provides recent videos about the Spitzer Space Telescope.… Read the rest of this article
Videos on this page come from a number of sources, but primarily Google and YouTube. This page provides recent videos about the Hubble Space Telescope.… Read the rest of this article
Videos on this page come from a number of sources, but primarily Google and YouTube. This page provides recent videos about the European Space Agency and its various missions.… Read the rest of this article
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