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…
Hubble Gets its Best Look At the First Quasar
The term quasar comes from quasi-stellar objects, a name that reflected our uncertainty about their nature.…
Mary W. Jackson Portrait Revealed
A portrait of Mary W. Jackson is seen after it was unveiled, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024,…