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[ad_1] Back to Article List This creepy-crawly topographical feature forms during the martian spring season. Martian 'spiders' imaged by the ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS One of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars explorers, the ExoMars...
[ad_1] Few space images are as iconic as those of the Horsehead Nebula. Its shape makes it instantly recognizable. Over the decades, a number of telescopes have captured its image, turning it into a sort of test case for a telescope’s power. The JWST has them all...
[ad_1] Science & Exploration 30/04/2024 533 views 13 likes ESA ensures a ride into space for its Smile mission, with Arianespace signing up to launch the spacecraft on a Vega-C rocket Smile is a collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)....
[ad_1] The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades.CNSA unveiled the video on Wednesday (April 24) as part of the country's annual space day celebrations. The...
[ad_1] Back to Article List Early risers can watch this week as a beautiful line of planets parades past the Moon. The Moon will slide past a line of planets in the morning sky in the coming week. This chart captures the view on May 6, 40 minutes before sunrise,...
[ad_1] On 9 January 2024, the Einstein probe was launched, its mission to study the night sky in X-rays. The first image from the probe that explores the Universe in these energetic wavelengths has just been released. It shows Puppis A, the supernova remnant from a...
[ad_1] Applications 29/04/2024 705 views 7 likes The European Galileo navigation system has two more satellites in orbit following their launch in the early morning of Sunday, 28 April, at 01:34 BST/02:34 CEST. With 30 satellites now in orbit, Galileo is expanding its...
[ad_1] Even in quarantine, the first NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner are still practicing their mission just a week before launch.NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams finished a big dress rehearsal on Friday (April 26) for their...
[ad_1] An artistic conception of the Milky Way, estimated to contain 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) stars. Credit: NASA/JPL. Why don’t numbers end? – Reyhane, age 7, Tehran, Iran Here’s a game: Ask a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger....
[ad_1] When I heard about this I felt an amused twinge of envy. Over the last year I have been using an unimpressive 4G broadband service and at best get 20 Mbps, NASA’s Psyche mission has STILL been getting 23 Mbps at 225 million km away! It’s all thanks to the...