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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

The following news are a copy of the ESA space science news, for which I thank ESA for authorization. In order to read the full articles please follow the corresponding links.

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


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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


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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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