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
Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary
10/07/2025
To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch beyond the surface of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a massive, local star-forming region.
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Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS
02/07/2025
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.This is the first-ever evidence for a ‘planet with a death wish’. Though it was theorised to be possible since the nineties, the flares seen in this research are around 100 times more energetic than expected.
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Plato’s eyes meet brain
30/06/2025
On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission.
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Webb spots a starburst shining in infrared
30/06/2025
A starburst shines in infrared (MIRI)
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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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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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Meet Smile
04/06/2025
An animation showing ESA’s Smile mission watching on as the Sun’s solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.
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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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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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