Continuing the Mapping of Mars
Nearly 90% of Mars’ surface has been mapped by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express, which celebrates ten years since launch this June. The…
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The Sky This Month Page Updated
I’ve updated The Sky This Month page with this month’s Moon information along with videos about what’s up in the sky in February and other items…
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Saturn Storm Catches Up on Itself
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet…
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Using a 3D Printer to Build a Moonbase
Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects…
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Elderly Star Giving Birth to Planets
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding…
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Why Venus Behaves Like a Comet
ESA’s Venus Express has made unique observations of Venus during a period of reduced solar wind pressure, discovering that the planet’s ionosphere balloons out like a…
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New View of the Andromeda Galaxy Taken by Herschel
In this new view of the Andromeda galaxy from ESA’s Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of forming stars are revealed in the finest detail yet. Andromeda,…
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The Search for Life on Mars
In this 6th session of the internet-based live lectures between Universities and Institutes, Dr Jorge Vago (ESA) discusses missions to Mars and in particular the European…
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Planetary Resources Releases Asteroid Mining Update
This is a press release from Chris Lewicki, the President and Chief Asteroid Miner at Planetary Resources: In the accompanying video, you can see one of our…
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Astronomy Ignorance About Our Solar System!
The European Space Agency wanted to know the level of knowledge about the number of planets in our Solar System so they asked people around Europe.…
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