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    Uranus
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    04-Jan-2004
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    Uranus Origin of name Uranus is named after the father of Saturn in Roman mythology. Discovered by William Herschel in 1781 Satellites Named after characters from...
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    Explore the cosmos with ESASky
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    22-Jan-2018
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    Meet ESASky, a discovery portal that provides full access to the entire sky. This open-science application allows computer, tablet and mobile users to visualise cosmic objects near and far across...
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    Rosetta's OSIRIS cameras reveal the nature of asteroid Steins
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    08-Jan-2010
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    Close-up images of asteroid (2867) Steins, obtained with the OSIRIS cameras on Rosetta, have provided extensive new measurements of the physical properties of this main-belt asteroid. Steins is...
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    Herschel's HIFI follows the trail of cosmic water
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    06-Jan-2010
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    Herschel's HIFI instrument was especially designed to follow the water trail in the Universe over a wide range of scales, from the Solar System out to extragalactic sources. Early results,...
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    Hubble and Keck team up to find farthest known galaxy in the Universe [heic0404]
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    15-Jan-2004
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    An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the Universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is...
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    Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evolution theory
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    17-Jan-2013
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    ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was less than a billion...
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    Impact landing ends SMART-1 mission to the Moon
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    03-Jan-2006
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    ESA PR 31-2006: At 05h42m21.759s UT, 3 September 2006, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the Lake...
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    Hot lava flows discovered on Venus
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    18-Jan-2015
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    ESA's Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth's neighbour planet.
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    The Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates Supernova 1987A's 20th Anniversary [heic0704]
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    23-Jan-2007
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    Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months...
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    Hubble finds that "distance" from the brightest stars is key to preserving primordial discs [heic2009]
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    28-Jan-2020
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2. The research found that the material encircling stars near...
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    Cassini Equinox Mission
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    31-Jan-2008
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    The Cassini Equinox Mission was a two-year mission extension which ran from July 2008 until October 2010. This followed the completion of the four-year nominal mission, which ran from July 2004 to...
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    Cassini/Huygens deep-space manoeuvre completed
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    03-Jan-1998
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    second flyby of Venus in June - the next major milestone on the long voyage to Saturn
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    Cluster takes a tilt at radio wave sources
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    26-Jan-2013
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    A new study using ESA's Cluster mission has shown improved precision in determining the source of a radio emission produced by the Earth. The experiment involved tilting one of the four identical...
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    International Year of Astronomy 2009 officially launched
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    16-Jan-2009
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    A thrilling launch to the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is taking place at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Headquarters in Paris on 15 and...
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    Astronomy and Astrophysics focuses on XMM-Newton
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    25-Jan-2001
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    The first issue this year of the European scientific journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics" has just been published. It is a 352-page bumper edition devoted entirely to ESA's XMM-Newton...
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    Herschel's view of the W3/W4/W5 complex
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    18-Jan-2017
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    Herschel's view of the W3/W4/W5 complex
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    Herschel's view of Orion B
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    18-Jan-2017
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    Herschel's view of Orion B
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    Comets at close range
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    26-Jan-2001
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    15 years after ESA's Giotto spacecraft achieved an historic close range reconnaissance of Comet Halley, another probe from Earth has successfully followed in its footsteps.
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    James Webb Space Telescope to launch in October 2021
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    16-Jan-2020
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    The launch of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now planned for 31 October 2021.
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    SPC Report April 2005
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    09-Jan-2005
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    OperationsThe Huygens Mission Operations Report was prepared by the Flight Control Team and was released in March. The analysis shows that the probe was in good health during the mission and all...
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    Hubble - greatest discoveries
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    28-Jan-2015
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    Hubble - greatest discoveries The lives of stars: How Hubble has revolutionised our understanding of the birth and death of stars Most of the light and radiation we can observe in the Universe...
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    Herschel view of the Vela-C molecular cloud
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    26-Jan-2012
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    Herschel view of Vela-C
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    Hubble snaps close-up views of diverse galaxies
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    30-Jan-2008
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    Hubble snaps close-up views of diverse galaxies
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    Venus mountains create wave trains
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    13-Jan-2014
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    The planet Venus is blanketed by high-level clouds. At visible wavelengths, individual cloud features are difficult to see, but observations made by instruments on ESA's Venus Express orbiter have...
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    Support for missions
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    06-Jan-2017
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    Support for missions Contents of this page PLATO CCD CHEOPS CCD Euclid CCD SMILE CCD Euclid near-infrared detector Gaia mission support PLATO CCD The PLATO CCD detector...
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    Introduction to the Universe
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    18-Jan-2004
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    Introduction to the Universe Solar System The Solar System is a collection of planets, moons, asteroids and comets and other rocky objects orbiting the Sun. The Solar System is believed to extend...
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    Hubble sees the brightest quasar in the early Universe [heic1902]
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    09-Jan-2019
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the brightest quasar ever seen in the early Universe. After 20 years of searching, astronomers have identified the ancient quasar with the help of...
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    Lutetia's dark side hosts hidden crater
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    08-Jan-2014
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    Grooves found on Lutetia, an asteroid encountered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, point to the existence of a large impact crater on the unseen side of the rocky world.
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    Hubble reveals diversity of exoplanet atmospheres – Largest ever comparative study solves missing water mystery [heic1524]
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    14-Jan-2015
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    Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of ten hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets in detail, the largest number of such...
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    A family portrait of galaxies [heic1213]
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    06-Jan-2012
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    Two very different galaxies feature in this family portrait taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, together forming a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116. The image shows the dramatic...
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