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Watch Nobel laureate Michel Mayor’s seminar about exoplanets Thursday 10:30–11:30 CEST live from ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre To source

For an astronaut looking out of the International Space Station windows, city lights are brighter than the stars. To tackle light pollution citizen scientists are urged to help map out the problem on their smartphones by identifying images of cities taken from space. To source

Technology image of the week: Almost all the oxygen has been extracted from this pile of simulated moondust, leaving a mixture of metal alloys To source

ESA congratulates 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who have been awarded the prestigious prize for the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star, and James Peebles, honoured for the theoretical framework of cosmology used to investigate the Universe on its largest scales. To source

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A closed-loop toilet system demonstrates space technology at ESA Open Day in the Netherlands To source

As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world is warming at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences. While our vast oceans are helping to take the heat out of climate change, new research shows that they are absorbing a lot more atmospheric carbon dioxide than previously thought – but these positives may […]

On 6 October, 9 159 people visited ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands to meet astronauts, space scientists and engineers To source

Our week through the lens: 28 September – 04 October 2019 To source

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the Netherlands for an ESA open day To source

In this week’s edition, we discover part of the Netherlands and ESA’s technical centre To source

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano takes over command of the International Space Station in a ceremony held on 2 October To source

Technology image of the week: the logo of ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence aboard the International Space Station To source

On 27 September ESA’s centre in Italy welcomed over 1000 visitors for European Researchers’ Night To source