The continuing disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has allowed ESA scientists to see into the interior of the comet. Using a revolutionary camera attached to the ESA Optical Ground Station […]
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Trio of Neptunes and their Belt – HARPS Instrument Finds Unusual Planetary System
Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO’s 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. […]
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Daughters of Deep Impact
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Over the past five years, three space missions — Deep Impact, Deep Space 1 and Stardust — have provided unprecedented information about comets. However, rather than […]
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Venus Express Data To Bring ‘Fresh European Perspective’
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to begin making observations with its Venus Express satellite almost immediately to take advantage of the probe’s current temporary position, ESA officials said.
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Venus Express enters orbit around the Hothouse Planet
This morning, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner Solar System beginning with its launch on 9 November 2005, ESA’s Venus Express space probe […]
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Asteroids: treasures of the past and a threat to the future
If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 — about 500 m in diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes — collides with the Earth […]
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Giotto’s brief encounter With Comet Halley
Twenty years ago, in the night between 13 and 14 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft encountered Comet Halley. It was ESA’s first deep space mission, and part of an ambitious […]
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ESA Ministers Reject ‘Buy European’ Launch Proposal
European Space Agency governments declined to adopt a tough measure that would have required the use of European rockets to launch European government satellites, a proposal that came to be known as the “Buy European Act.” Instead, the government ministers who make ESA policy agreed only to make it more difficult for governments to use lower-cost non-European alternatives for launching ESA satellites.
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Near Earth Objects – what lies ahead?
Telescope facilities across the world are watching the skies for rocky remnants from outer space on a collision course with planet Earth. Currently one or two of these so called […]
