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ESA Space Science News
Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact
29/09/2022
Two of the great space observatories, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique experiment to smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid. Observations of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact mark the first time that Webb and Hubble were used to simultaneously observe the same celestial target.
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Webb’s icy instrument reveals complex structures
27/09/2022
These spectacular images feature the spiral galaxy IC 5332, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (right).
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New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades
21/09/2022
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is showing off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras are also revealing the ice giant in a whole new light.
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Mars is mighty in first Webb observations of Red Planet
19/09/2022
The James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of Mars on 5 September 2022. The telescope, an international collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency, provides a unique perspective with its infrared sensitivity on our neighbouring planet, complementing data being collected by orbiters, rovers, and other telescopes.
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Solar Orbiter solves magnetic switchback mystery
12/09/2022
With data from its closest pass of the Sun yet, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has found compelling clues as to the origin of magnetic switchbacks, and points towards how their physical formation mechanism might help accelerate the solar wind.
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Spiralling stars provide a window into the early Universe
08/09/2022
Astronomers have been bemused to find young stars spiralling into the centre of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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Zoom into the Tarantula Nebula
06/09/2022
This video takes the viewer on a journey that zooms through space to reveal the Tarantula Nebula.
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Webb captures a cosmic tarantula
06/09/2022
Thousands of never-before-seen young stars are spotted in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for the appearance of its dusty filaments in previous telescope images, the nebula has long been a favourite for astronomers studying star formation. In addition to young stars, Webb reveals distant background galaxies, as well as the detailed structure and composition of the nebula’s gas and dust.
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Webb takes its first exoplanet image
01/09/2022
For the first time, astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of an exoplanet.
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The secrets of Jupiter
18/07/2022
Discover the top five mysteries that ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission will solve.
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Webb’s first deep field
12/07/2022
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe to date.
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Cosmic manatee accelerates particles from head
04/07/2022
ESA’s XMM-Newton has X-rayed this beautiful cosmic creature, known as the Manatee Nebula, pinning down the location of unusual particle acceleration in its ‘head’.
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The Fingertip Galaxy: Reflecting Euclid in art
01/07/2022
“After Euclid’s lifetime, it will just be floating in space.
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BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby
27/06/2022
A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury on 23 June 2022.
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Gaia data release 3 – press event
13/06/2022
Watch the replay of the press event for Gaia’s data release 3 on 13 June 2022.
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