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Asteroid in the Crab Nebula (M1)

Striking find

Space Science Image of the Week: Citizen scientist spots asteroid in Hubble image of Crab Nebula To source

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Let's talk space

ESA Web TV reports on our ‘next space generation’ Space Talk where students gave their opinion on future space activities To source

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Past, present and future

Exoplanet pioneer Michel Mayor, one of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics winners, met early career scientists during his recent visit to ESA in Spain To source

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Lake Natron

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa To source

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River relic spied by Mars Express

Mars may seem to be an alien world, but many of its features look eerily familiar – such as this ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest valley networks on the planet. To source

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Exoplanet explorers

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

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Astronauts and citizens team up against light pollution

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

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Metal from moondust

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

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