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ESA Space Science News
Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple
18/02/2025
Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique power of the mission to uncover fleeting X-ray sources in the sky.
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Celebrating Solar Orbiter and the women behind the mission
11/02/2025
Behind every successful ESA space mission, there is at least one woman.
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XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants
06/02/2025
Scientists spot tiny Sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
05/02/2025
Back in 2023, we reported on Solar Orbiter’s discovery of tiny jets near the Sun’s south pole that could be powering the solar wind.
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ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf
04/02/2025
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf.
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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
04/02/2025
Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc
04/02/2025
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
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KA-BOOM
03/02/2025
KA-BOOM
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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6
29/01/2025
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) Director of Science, Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Space Transportation, Toni Tolker-Nielsen, and Arianespace Chief Commercial Officer, Steven Rutgers, signed the launch agreement to fly ESA’s scientific mission Plato; the formal step took place at the European Space Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
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Signed and sealed: Envision can move towards construction
28/01/2025
On 28 January 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to build the Envision spacecraft. Launching in the 2030s, Envision will be the first mission to investigate Venus from its inner core to its upper atmosphere. It will investigate what made our most Earth-like neighbour turn out so different from our home planet.
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The sounds of BepiColombo's sixth flight past Mercury
24/01/2025
Listen to the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft as it flew past Mercury on 8 January 2025.
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Leo P (NIRCam image)
17/01/2025
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue).
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Jetting into space
17/01/2025
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula.
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The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia
15/01/2025
This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope.
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See and hear three years of solar fireworks
03/01/2025
At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years.
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