Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar…
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High Velocity Clouds Comprise Less of the Milky Way’s Mass Than We Thought
Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what…
Swarm vs. space radiation – the first 10 years
Enabling & Support 10/12/2024 50 views 2 likes Satellites in orbit can become absentminded. Space radiation…
Sentinel-1C captures first radar images
Applications 10/12/2024 690 views 15 likes Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C…
What if we find alien life and don’t recognize it?
This artist’s image depicts part of a model of Earth’s tree of life. When humans finally…
XMM-Newton celebrates 25 years of breakthroughs
Science & Exploration 10/12/2024 24 views 0 likes Today, ESA’s powerful X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, celebrates 25…
Has the Universe Been Designed to Support Life? Now We Have a Way to Test it!
The anthropic principle states that the fundamental parameters of the Universe such as the strength of…
Webb Sees a Supercluster of Galaxies Coming Together
As a species, we’ve come to the awareness that we’re a minuscule part of a vast…
Relive Sentinel-1C on Vega-C launch
The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 CET (18:20 local time). Sentinel-1C extends…
ESA – Methane concentrations near Cheltenham
This sequence of images shows the methane concentrations near Cheltenham, England, from 27 March, 20 April…