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Gaia’s stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years
Video: 00:00:45 The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion is imperceptible to the unaided eye but is being measured with increasing precision by Gaia. This animation shows the proper motions of 40 000 stars, all located within 100 parsecs (326 light years) of the Solar System. The animation […]
Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe
On 8 November, 33 intrepid sailors set off from Les Sables-D’Olonne in western France to take part in the most extreme, solo, non-stop, race around the world: the Vendée Globe. The route of around 45 000 km takes them down through the Atlantic and into the heart of the Southern Ocean – which is where […]
Slimming down solar cells
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SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging
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SOHO’s pioneering 25 years in orbit
The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is celebrating its twenty-fifth launch anniversary. To source
Decades of the Sun, as seen by SOHO
Video: 00:45:00 For 25 years, the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory has captured thousands of flares, coronal mass ejections, sunspots and coronal holes that continuously break out from the Sun. This video merges decades of footage from the C2 and C3 cameras of the LASCO instrument onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory from 1998 to 2020, revealing […]
29 November 2020 coronal mass ejection
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SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging
Image: SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging To source
SOHO in numbers
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A-68A on the move
Image: All eyes remain on the giant A-68A iceberg on its journey across the Southern Ocean. This image shows A-68A’s movements over the past 15 days using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 missions. To source
ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start-up
ESA has signed an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first-ever removal of an item of space debris from orbit. To source
Rad dishes in space
Image: NASA astronaut Kate Rubins poses next to a thriving radish crop growing inside the Advanced Plant Habitat in the International Space Station. Located in Europe’s Columbus module, the NASA experiment is the latest in the study of plants growing in microgravity. With plans to visit the Moon and Mars, future astronauts will need a […]