ESA – The Netherlands from Sentinel-1C

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar…

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…