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
Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history
21/05/2025
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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Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane showers
14/05/2025
A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the northern hemisphere for the first time. Most of Titan’s lakes and seas are located in that hemisphere, and are likely replenished by an occasional rain of methane and ethane. Webb also has detected a key carbon-containing molecule that gives insight into the chemical processes in Titan’s complex atmosphere.
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Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora
12/05/2025
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
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Plato grows its many eyes
08/05/2025
The activities to assemble the European Space Agency’s Plato mission are progressing well now that 24 of the spacecraft’s 26 cameras have been installed. Once in space, Plato will use its many eyes to survey a very large area of the sky and hunt for terrestrial planets. The spacecraft’s supporting element is also coming together in parallel.
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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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Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home
29/04/2025
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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Hubble offers a new view of Sombrero galaxy
16/04/2025
Sombrero Galaxy
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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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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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