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Published: 23 September 2005
Published: 21 September 2005
Published: 21 September 2005
The Double Star TC-2 and Cluster satellites have gathered unique data from the biggest starquake on a neutron star ever recorded, enabling the discrimination between current theories on the origin of these type of events.
Published: 21 September 2005
Members of the scientific community in all of the ESA member states are invited to respond to the Announcement of Opportunity to submit proposals for observations to be performed with ASTRO-F, the Japanese infrared all-sky survey mission.
Published: 21 September 2005
Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the presence of a compact disk of young stars at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy surrounding the central black hole.
Published: 20 September 2005
A large study of quasars conducted with Hubble and the VLT has resulted in the first observation of a unique type of quasar, one with no readily observable host galaxy.
Published: 14 September 2005
In an article to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, Bélanger et al. report on the nature of a hard X-ray source located near and associated with the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Published: 14 September 2005
The Victoria Space Science Education Centre was built for the purpose of the promotion of science. The Centre will allow students to be immersed in a space science mission to Mars and to work as scientists on the ISS.
Published: 13 September 2005
Published: 6 September 2005
There will be 7 instruments on board Venus Express, and PRODEX contribution in Belgium is SPICAV, instrument developed by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy.
Published: 6 September 2005
Published: 26 August 2005
The next issue of the SPC agreed annual calls for support to nationally led projects, including projects of non-Member States.
Published: 22 August 2005
On 9 August 1975 ESA's first scientific satellite, Cos-B, was launched. Cos-B was ESA's first foray into producing a spacecraft with a single payload: a high-energy gamma-ray telescope. The mission was a remarkable success and returned the first detailed observations of gamma-ray emission from within our galaxy.
Published: 17 August 2005
Published: 16 August 2005
A number of interesting papers have recently been published based on data gathered by INTEGRAL - ESA's gamma-ray observatory. They cover a range of observations covering all the capabilities of the spacecraft.
Published: 16 August 2005
Published: 11 August 2005
A publication in the Annales Geophysicae reports on the first ever measurement of the current density in the ring current region using data from the Cluster spacecraft.
Published: 28 July 2005
The 16 July 2005 marks the 5th anniversary of the launch of the first two Cluster satellites from Baikonur. It also coincides with the end of two months of successful manoeuvres in space for the four spacecraft of the Cluster mission.
Published: 14 July 2005
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