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Webb snaps photographs of Asteroid 2024 YR4
This image shows Webb’s recent observation of the asteroid 2024 YR4 using both its Near-Infrared Camera…
ESA – Up for space
Two space explorers met recently at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre in Germany – one returning from…
ESA – Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on 2 March 2024. The…
Antarctic subglacial lakes threaten ice sheet stability
There is a series of lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier, part of an extensive network of meltwater…
A chance alignment in Lupus
The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC…
20 years of Uranus observations
The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the Sun tipped on its side, is a weird…
Neptune Auroras (Hubble and Webb Image)
At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right,…
Milky Way Center (MeerKAT and Webb)
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky…
ESA – Firing up HENON’s engine
Beneath this eerie green light and tendril-like cables sits a newly developed gridded ion engine thruster…