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Launching soon on Vega-C🚀

New pics from @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C launch site: fuelling the satellite!

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🚀 Welcome #Ax4 crew to @esa's European Astronaut Centre! They’re gearing up with European @Space_Station science and Columbus lab training for their upcoming mission. Led by @Axiom_Space's @AstroPeggy 🇺🇸, the assigned crew includes pilot Shubhanshu Shukla 🇮🇳 and mission…

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Where on Earth is this? If you think you know the correct answer, head to the poll below.

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It's time for the @ESAJuiceBar! 🌑🌍 After a successful lunar-Earth flyby, the team is now busy analysing all the data they collected. 🛰️ The spacecraft is on track for the next flyby, with the next manoeuvre scheduled for early January. 🌞🛰️🌍 At the moment, Juice is going…

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☀️💨🛰️🌍 Meet our Smile mission! 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films


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Proba-3's Coronagraph spacecraft passed its 'fit check' with the launcher adapter that attaches it (& its fellow Occulter spacecraft) to its @ISRO PSLV-XL launcher. The pair will form artificial solar eclipses in orbit esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

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A new @esa-backed study shows that the extreme heatwaves of 2023, which fuelled huge wildfires and severe droughts, also undermined the land’s capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon. This diminished carbon uptake drove atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to new highs,…

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Can you believe it has been 10 years since we landed on a comet? On 12 November 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, our Rosetta mission’s lander Philae made history by touching down on a comet for the first time.…


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🥳 Happy New Year, Mars! 📅 At 10:32 CET/09:32 UTC, the Red Planet begins another orbit around the Sun. It's year 38 on Mars. 🔴🔁🌍 A year on Mars vs Earth esa.int/Science_Explor…

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The Proba-3 team are in place at @ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in India, along with their two eclipse-making spacecraft. You can follow their launch preparations in our mission blog: blogs.esa.int/proba-3/

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📸 This week’s new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045. This is a pair of interacting galaxies are a part of the Coma galaxy cluster, a particularly rich cluster which contains over a thousand known galaxies. Several can…

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Check out our #WeekInImages 4-8 November 2024 ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/Week_…

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🚀 Exciting news: we are now on TikTok! 🎉 🌌 Expect to see updates on space missions, cool facts, and a peek into what life is like at ESA. Come explore with us! Follow us here ➡️ tiktok.com/@europeanspace


🍂 The colours of autumn across the western border of North Macedonia and Greece are captured in this @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 image. Zoom into the features here ➡️ esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

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457 new near-Earth asteroids were discovered in October 2024, making it the most prolific month of the year so far for new discoveries! October also saw the 10th detection of a small asteroid prior to Earth impact. Sign up to ESA's #AsteroidNewsletter at: neo.ssa.esa.int/-/latest-newsl…


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On the verge of making space exploration history at a comet over half a billion kilometres away and ten years from home, a critical component on a tiny lander fails; but when the difficult decision is given to attempt the landing anyway, and the lander goes missing after…

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The first snowfall after a long time 🥹 Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, has seen its first snowfall after one of the longest periods without snow since records began 130 years ago. This @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 image was captured on 7 November, just one day after snow was…

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As well as making solar eclipses on demand, ESA's double-satellite Proba-3 mission - now readying for a December launch from India - will also perform ongoing monitoring of the Sun's energy output, an essential value for climate studies esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

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🧱Fancy building your own space-inspired LEGO? Now you can fulfil your dreams with two sets that feature us! You can build your own: 🚀 NASA Artemis Space Launch System, which includes a model of the Orion spacecraft featuring the European Service Module we developed. 🌌The…

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