Juno Falls Back to Jupiter With Scientific Eyes Wide Open
Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point. On July 31 at…
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Looks Like Flowing Water Did Not Form Gullies on Mars
New findings using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new…
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Stress Testing Components for BepiColombo
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the innermost planet of our Solar System: temperatures in excess of…
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Today Is International Asteroid Day
ESA is participating in today’s international Asteroid Day, to mark the largest observed asteroid strike in recorded history – the 1908 airburst above Tunguska in Siberia.…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 544: Nova in Scorpius
AAVSO Alert Notice 544 Nova in Scorpius June 13, 2016 Discovered by: Hideo Nishimura (Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken, Japan) (reported by S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, via CBET 4285) Discovery…
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Timelapse of Sentinel-1B Launch
This timelapse video shows Sentinel-1B, from final preparations to liftoff on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 25 April 2016 at 21:02…
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Young Star Offers a Glimpse of How the Sun Was Born
It may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not yet generate energy like a normal star. This is because…
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Planetary Resources Signs Agreement With Luxembourg Government
Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced on June 13, 2016, that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the Grand…
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ESA Planck Satellite Images Loop I Microwave Ring
Fifty years ago, astronomers discovered a mystery. They called it Loop I. Today, we still have not fully resolved the mystery of how this giant celestial…
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Sentinel-1A Satellite Image of Ireland
The Sentinel-1A satellite takes us over to Ireland, in this multi-temporal colour composite of land coverage across the island. (Download a hired image here). With a…
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