on my webpage! I am an experienced spacecraft analyst at the European Space Operations Centre via Telespazio Germany GmbH. Currently, I am the analyst for the X-ray astronomy mission XMM-Newton, but have worked as an analyst for almost all Earth Explorer spacecrafts previously. In the past I have worked as an astrophysicist studing accreting neutron stars and cosmological neutrino sources. For more details please have a look at the “About me” menu.
ESA Space Science News
Earth tones on Mars
26/06/2025
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured a swirl of colour on the Red Planet, with yellows and rust-oranges meeting deep reds and browns. Lurking within this martian palette are not one but four dust devils, each snaking their way across the surface.
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Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7
25/06/2025
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7.If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet, and the lightest planet ever seen with this technique.
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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter
19/06/2025
Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery.
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Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins
17/06/2025
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA. A bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves: ripples in spacetime caused by the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of supermassive black holes colliding and merging.
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles
11/06/2025
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s south pole
11/06/2025
What if we could look at the Sun from a whole new angle, one we've never seen before?
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Webb glimpses the distant past
27/05/2025
A glimpse of the distant past by Webb
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Streaks on Mars
19/05/2025
Bright and dark streaks covering the slopes of the Olympus Mons aureole, as seen by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
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Research Fellows in space science 2025
07/05/2025
ESA has selected 10 new Fellows to pursue their own independent research in space science, starting in 2025.
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Exoplanets explained by Nobel Prize winner (part 1) | The 5 Ws
02/05/2025
Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz answers the who, what, where, when and why of exoplanets in this 3-part series.
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A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray
29/04/2025
Webb: A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray
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Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun
24/04/2025
Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun
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Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way
28/03/2025
For over a decade, ESA’s Gaia mission has mapped our galaxy with stunning precision—rewriting the story of the Milky Way.
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Watch wind whirl from the Sun
26/03/2025
Aside from sunlight, the Sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind.
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Euclid is back – 26 million galaxies and counting
19/03/2025
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has scouted out the three areas in the sky where it will eventually provide the deepest observations of its mission.
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