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    ESA's Rosetta comet chaser unveiled in London
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    01-Jan-1999
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    The final design of the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet chaser wasrevealed today at the Royal Society in London when a 1:4 scale (7.1mdiameter) model of the giant spacecraft was unveiled by...
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    The final frontier of the Frontier Fields [heic1711]
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    04-Jan-2017
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope has peered across six billion light years of space to resolve extremely faint features of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 that have not been seen before. Imaged here in...
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    First Euclid flight hardware delivered
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    07-Jan-2017
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    An important milestone has been passed in the development of Euclid, a pioneering ESA mission to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The...
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    Irish ESA astronomer will chase the eclipse in a plane from Dublin
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    03-Jan-1999
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    What if it's cloudy on the morning of August 11? That is the question.Thousands, maybe millions of eclipse-lovers must now be worrying overthis dark thought. Well, here's something to make them...
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    ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat
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    18-Jan-2011
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    Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the...
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    Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster [heic1321]
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    14-Jan-2013
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the centre of the Milky Way. This glittering...
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    Europe prepares its own Mars mission, as NASA's probe lands on Mars
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    01-Jan-1999
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    Just before NASA's Mars Polar Lander bounces to a gentle halt on Mars tomorrow, it will jettison two small probes that will crash into the planet and penetrate its surface. Four years later, in...
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    Lost in space - New Hubble image of galaxy NGC 6503 [heic1513]
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    10-Jan-2015
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    Although the Universe may seem spacious most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters and a neighbour is never far away. But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely...
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    Hubble Zooms In on Bar of Favourite Spring Spiral Galaxy [heic0102]
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    26-Jan-2001
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    Astronomers have long suspected that the bar systems that dominate the appearance of some spiral galaxies provide an efficient mechanism for fuelling star births at their centres. New results from...
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    Hubble Timeline
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    17-Jan-2003
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    Hubble Timeline Year Event 1977 American congress approves funding for Hubble. 1981 Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) begins operations in Baltimore, Maryland. 1984 Space...
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    Herschel throws new light on oldest cosmic light
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    01-Jan-2013
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    Cosmologists have achieved a first detection of a long-sought component in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This component, known as B-mode polarisation, is caused by gravitational lensing,...
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    Model Payload
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    03-Jan-2008
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    Model Payload NOTE: In March 2011 ESA announced a new way forward for the L-class candidate missions: EJSM-Laplace, IXO and LISA. ESA and the scientific community are now studying options for...
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    No. 35 - Mission Commissioning Results Review
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    12-Jan-2006
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    Report for Period 2 July to 8 July 2006During the reporting period the mission operations have been conducted according to plan. The ground and the space segment performance have been nominal with...
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    Hubble observes pitch black planet [heic1714]
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    14-Jan-2017
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    Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric...
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    ESA spacecraft model magnetic boundaries
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    07-Jan-2011
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    European scientists have used observations from ESA's Cluster and Venus Express spacecraft to improve models of the interaction of Earth and Venus with the solar wind, the perpetual stream of...
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    GLOSSARY A
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    26-Jan-2003
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    GLOSSARY A Aberration Property of an optical system that causes an image to have certain easily recognisable flaws. Aberrations are caused by geometrical factors such as the shapes of surfaces,...
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    Solar System and Robotic Exploration Missions Section (SCI-FMP)
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    27-Jan-2003
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    The Solar System and Robotic Exploration Missions Section (SCI-FMP), as part of the Advanced Payload and Mission Concepts Office, is responsible for system studies (phase 0/A) of science missions...
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    Cluster locates the source of non-thermal terrestrial continuum radiation by triangulation
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    17-Jan-2004
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    Published 14 July 2004, in Annales Geophysicae, a multipoint analysis of Cluster data allows, for the first time, to locate the source of non-thermal terrestrial continuum radiation by...
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    Discovery of the most massive cluster of galaxies known in the distant Universe
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    25-Jan-2008
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    XMM-Newton has discovered a rare, very massive cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 7700 million light years (or z~1). The object, designated 2XMM J083026+524133, was discovered during a...
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    State-of-the-art grating for Gaia
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    30-Jan-2009
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    An important milestone has been reached for the Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS): the full-size demonstrator model of the RVS grating - a key component responsible for the dispersion of the...
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    Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image [heic0715]
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    02-Jan-2007
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime...
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    VIRTIS Observations of Venus' Lower Atmosphere
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    04-Jan-2008
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    Since the successful orbit insertion of Venus Express in April 2006, the VIRTIS instrument has gathered numerous high-resolution spectra of Venus' atmosphere in the wavelength range 2-5 micron....
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    ESA on the trail of the earliest stars
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    26-Jan-2003
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    Somewhere in the distant, old Universe, a population of stars hide undetected. They were the first to form after the birth of the Universe and are supposed to be far bigger in mass than any star...
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    There is more gas in the Galaxy than is dreamt of by astronomers
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    11-Jan-2013
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    A survey from Herschel has revealed that the reservoir of molecular gas in the Milky Way is hugely underestimated - almost by one third - when it is traced with traditional methods. Monitoring the...
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    No. 20 - Waiting for Probe Descent
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    12-Jan-2005
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    on its final target and is now just under 48 hours away from its encounter with Saturn's
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    Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud
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    25-Jan-2018
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    Since 13 September, ESA's Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet's equator.
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    Mars Express forges collaboration with Japanese Mars mission
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    25-Jan-2001
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    International collaboration between Europe and Japan took a step forward last month when scientists building instruments for ESA's Mars Express mission travelled to Japan for a meeting with their...
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    Hubble spies huge clusters of stars formed by ancient encounter [heic0103]
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    06-Jan-2001
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    Beautiful, detailed Hubble images of the centre of the prototypical starburst galaxy M82 point to a violent past. An ancient burst of star formation that gave birth to more than 100 super star...
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    Is life the rule or the exception? The answer may be in the interstellar clouds
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    28-Jan-2002
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    Is life a highly improbable event, or is it rather the inevitable consequence of a rich chemical soup available everywhere in the cosmos? Scientists have recently found new evidence that amino...
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    ESA's Planck satellite shapes up
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    09-Jan-2000
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    Planck, ESA's satellite to study the Universe as it was shortly after the Big Bang, is quickly taking shape. Its conceptual design has been settled and was presented to the Planck scientific...
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