ESA ATV’s Fiery Re-Entry to Be Filmed From Inside
As ESA’s remaining supply ferry to the International Space Station burns up in the atmosphere, its final moments as its hull disintegrates will be recorded from…
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Those Big Gamma-Ray Bursts
The electromagnetic spectrum is vast, ranging from high-energy gamma rays all the way to low-energy radio waves. Different telescopes and instruments are optimised to detect different…
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ESAhangout Replay: How to Surf the Venus Atmosphere
After eight years in orbit, ESA’s Venus Express has completed routine science observations and has spent the last month orbiting through the planet’s hostile atmosphere. Venus…
Read the articleNearby Blue Supergiant Mimics Earliest Stars
ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory has helped to uncover how the Universe’s first stars ended their lives in giant explosions. Astronomers studied the gamma-ray burst GRB130925A – a…
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A Spiral Bridge of Young Stars Between Two Ancient Galaxies
Astronomers routinely use the crisp view of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study all kinds of intricate details in galaxy clusters. By now you would think…
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After eight years in orbit, ESA’s Venus Express has completed routine science observations and has spent the last month orbiting through the planet’s hostile atmosphere. Join…
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Revisiting Lutetia With Rosetta
This ethereal image shows a stunning sliver of large main-belt asteroid Lutetia from the viewpoint of ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, taken as Rosetta passed by on its…
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Titan’s Inner Ocean Might Be as Salty as Earth’s Dead Sea
Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth’s Dead Sea.…
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Rosetta Speeds Towards Rendezvous With Leaky Comet
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water into space every second. The observations were made by the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta…
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