Gaia unravels the ancient threads of the Milky Way
ESA’s Gaia space telescope has further disentangled the history of our galaxy, discovering two surprising streams of stars that formed and wove together over 12 billion years ago.
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Media invitation: Last chance to see Arctic Weather Satellite
Call for media: Last chance to see Arctic Weather Satellite
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Earth from Space: Dawson-Lambton Glacier home to penguins
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the ice tongue of the Dawson-Lambton Glacier in Antarctica.
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Week in images: 26 February - 1 March 2024
Week in images: 26 February - 1 March 2024
Discover our week through the lens
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#Meteor over the Bay of #Naples
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Full house
Image: Full house
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#Earth and #Moon from Beyond
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Am 19. Januar 2024 plant die japanische Raumfahrtbehörde JAXA die Landung ihrer Mondsonde SLIM. Wird sie anders als Peregrine sicher aufsetzen?#JAXA #Mond #Mondlandung #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SLIM #Mondlander #Astronomie
Erneut soll Sonde auf dem Mond landen
Webb: galaxy mergers solve early Universe mystery
One of the key missions of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is to probe the early Universe. Now, the unmatched resolution and sensitivity of Webb’s NIRCam instrument have revealed, for the first time, what lies in the local environment of galaxies in the very early Universe.
This has solved one of the most puzzling mysteries in astronomy – why astronomers detect light from hydrogen atoms that should have been entirely blocked by the pristine gas that formed after the Big Bang.
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Hubble observes a changing exoplanet atmosphere
An international team of astronomers has assembled and reprocessed observations of the exoplanet WASP-121 b that were collected with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in the years 2016, 2018 and 2019. This provided them with a unique dataset that allowed them not only to analyse the atmosphere of WASP-121 b, but also to compare the state of the exoplanet’s atmosphere across several years.
The team found clear evidence that the observations of WASP-121 b were varying in time. Using sophisticated modelling techniques, they demonstrated that these temporal variations could be explained by weather patterns in the exoplanet's atmosphere.
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