A Solstice Solar Flare
The first day of northern summer began with a solar flare. Magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1236 erupted during the early hours of June 21st, hurling…
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What Messier Objects Are Visible Tonight
What Messier Objects Are Visible Tonight ()? A list of messier objects visible this month. All are possible with binoculars, most are easy even with small…
Read the article →Unveiling the Universe With the Herschel Space Telescope
Over 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, ESA’s Herschel space telescope has been observing the Universe for the last two years, studying the infrared radiation emitted by…
Read the article →Phobos and Jupiter Conjunction
Earlier this month, ESA’s Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have…
Read the article →Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight (June 15)
Tonight, June 15th, there’s going to be a total lunar eclipse that’s visible from every continent except North America (sorry guys!). The Moon will spend 100…
Read the article →ESA Rosetta Comet-Hunter to Sleep Through the Loneliest Leg of Its Mission
Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter and lander On 8 June, mission controllers had the first opportunity to switch ESA’s Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for…
Read the article →ExoMars Lander Scientific Investigations Selected
ESA and NASA have announced the scientific investigations selected for their 2016 ExoMars lander demonstrator. They will probe the atmosphere during the descent, and return the…
Read the article →Something Strange at the Edge of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back…
Read the article →Massive Solar Eruption
Yesterday morning (June 7th) around 06:41 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class…
Read the article →Springtime at Mars’ South Pole
ESA’s Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked…
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