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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
24 Jan 2020, 14:59 UTC
NASA's Kepler Witnesses Vampire Star System Undergoing Super-Outburst
24 Jan 2020, 14:59 UTC
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
24 Jan 2020, 13:59 UTC
This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Sees Dusty Galaxy With Supermassive Center
24 Jan 2020, 13:59 UTC
This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
23 Jan 2020, 18:12 UTC
The darkness surrounding the Hale Telescope breaks with a sliver of blue sky as the dome begins to open, screeching with metallic, sci-fi-like sounds atop San Diego County's Palomar Mountain. The historic observatory smells of the oil pumped in to support the bearings that make this giant telescope float ever so slightly as it moves to track the stars.
NESSI Emerges as New Tool for Exoplanet Atmospheres
23 Jan 2020, 18:12 UTC
The darkness surrounding the Hale Telescope breaks with a sliver of blue sky as the dome begins to open, screeching with metallic, sci-fi-like sounds atop San Diego County's Palomar Mountain. The historic observatory smells of the oil pumped in to support the bearings that make this giant telescope float ever so slightly as it moves to track the stars.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
22 Jan 2020, 20:01 UTC
NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
22 Jan 2020, 20:01 UTC
ESA Space Science
22 Jan 2020, 07:00 UTC
Artist's impression of an Atlas V 411 launching Solar Orbiter into space.
Solar Orbiter launch
22 Jan 2020, 07:00 UTC
Artist's impression of an Atlas V 411 launching Solar Orbiter into space.
ESA Space Science
20 Jan 2020, 16:00 UTC
Observations from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft are shedding light on the mysterious make-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, revealing a mix of compounds thought to be essential precursors to life – including salts of ammonium and a particular type of hydrocarbons.
Building blocks of life spotted on Rosetta’s comet hint at composition of its birthplace
20 Jan 2020, 16:00 UTC
Observations from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft are shedding light on the mysterious make-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, revealing a mix of compounds thought to be essential precursors to life – including salts of ammonium and a particular type of hydrocarbons.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
17 Jan 2020, 12:43 UTC
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
Hubble Views Galaxy From Famous Catalog
17 Jan 2020, 12:43 UTC
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
ESA Space Science
16 Jan 2020, 15:00 UTC
ESA’s XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way’s halo reaches far hotter temperatures than previously thought and has a different chemical make-up than predicted, challenging our understanding of our galactic home.
XMM-Newton discovers scorching gas in Milky Way’s halo
16 Jan 2020, 15:00 UTC
ESA’s XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way’s halo reaches far hotter temperatures than previously thought and has a different chemical make-up than predicted, challenging our understanding of our galactic home.
ESA Top News
16 Jan 2020, 08:30 UTC
The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental tests at the end of 2019 at Airbus, Toulouse, France. This included final thermal and vacuum tests where the Rover is heated and cooled to simulate the temperatures of its journey through space and on the surface of Mars. For example, Rosalind Franklin can expect temperatures dropping to –120°C outside, and –50 °C inside the rover once on Mars. It must also be able to operate in less than one hundredth of Earth’s atmospheric pressure – and in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
