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Spying a spiral through a cosmic lens (Webb telescope image)
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Webb spies a spiral through a cosmic lens
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From pebbles to planets
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Webb visits a star-forming spiral
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Celebrating Solar Orbiter and the women behind the mission
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ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf
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00:01:40Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitational tug or ‘wobble’ the planet induces on a star. Both the planet and brown dwarf are orbiting low-mass stars, a scenario thought to be extremely rare.
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Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) Director of Science, Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Space Transportation, Toni Tolker-Nielsen, and Arianespace Chief Commercial Officer, Steven Rutgers, signed the launch agreement to fly ESA’s scientific mission Plato; the formal step took place at the European Space Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
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Signed and sealed: Envision can move towards construction
On 28 January 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to build the Envision spacecraft. Launching in the 2030s, Envision will be the first mission to investigate Venus from its inner core to its upper atmosphere. It will investigate what made our most Earth-like neighbour turn out so different from our home planet.
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Leo P (NIRCam image)
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Jetting into space
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Mars plays hide and seek with Wolf Moon
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The best Milky Way map, by Gaia
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The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on)
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Planet-forming discs lived longer in early Universe
Our understanding of planet formation in the Universe’s early days is challenged by new data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Webb solved a puzzle by proving a controversial finding made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago.