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Snap the Stars to See Your Photo on ESA Portal
November 16, 2012 Have you taken an interesting astronomical photo this year? From planets and moons to the Sun, stars and galaxies, we’d like you to send us your images to feature as our Space Science Image of ... > full story -
GOCE’s Second Mission Improving Gravity Map
November 16, 2012 ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite has already delivered the most accurate gravity map of Earth, but its orbit is now being lowered in order to obtain even better results. The Gravity field and ... > full story -
Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
November 14, 2012 The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton space ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Colorful Lenticular Galaxy
November 9, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. The galaxy, called NGC 5010, ... > full story -
Experimental Interplanetary Internet Used to Test Robot from International Space Station
November 8, 2012 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment ... > full story -
Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars
November 2, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the ... > full story -
Stars Ancient and Modern?
October 31, 2012 A colorful new view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory ... > full story -
Dark Clouds, Young Stars, and a Dash of Hollywood: New Results from Space Telescope's Explorations of Stellar Birthplaces
October 31, 2012 An astronomical project has examined the earliest stages of star formation in unprecedented depth: Using techniques more commonly encountered in Hollywood blockbuster computer graphics than in ... > full story -
Hubble Sees Violent Star Formation Episodes in Dwarf Galaxies
October 27, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the faint irregular galaxy NGC 3738, a starburst galaxy. The galaxy is in the midst of a violent episode of star formation, during which it is ... > full story -
Earth's Magnetosphere Behaves Like a Sieve
October 24, 2012 Our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously believed. Earth’s magnetic field is our planet’s first line of defense against the ... > full story
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