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Space for the Cost of a Movie Ticket
The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded by 10 European states back in 1975 with the idea that “We can…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
Stirred, Not Shaken. Black Hole Antics Puff Up Whopper of a Galaxy
Its massive gravitational field warping space, the huge elliptical galaxy A2261-BCG, seems to have a diffuse halo of stars instead…
Cheops – A Little Satellite with Big Ideas
Caption: Artist impression of Cheops. Credit: University of Bern Big isn't always better. This is certainly true at ESA's new…
Integral: Ten Years Tracking Extreme Radiation Across the Universe
Caption: Artist's impression of ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. Image credit: ESA Integral, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory launched ten…
Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Surprise! Hot Venus has a Cold Upper Atmosphere
Venus' terminator – the transitional region between day and night -- may fuel an unusually cold region in the atmosphere.…
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T Minus 9 Days – Mars Orbiters Now in Place to Relay Critical Curiosity Landing Signals
Image Caption: NASA’s Mars Odyssey will relay near real time signals of this artist's concept depicting the moment that NASA's…
Europe’s Plans to Visit the Moon in 2018
The European Space Agency is aiming for the Moon with their Lunar Lander mission, anticipated to arrive on the lunar…
Aurora Over Antarctica: a “Teardrop From Heaven”
"We managed to snap a few photos before Heaven realised its mistake and closed its doors." – Dr. Alexander Kumar…