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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    Beamed radio emission from Earth
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    27-Jan-2008
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    A recent study reveals how the most powerful emission of terrestrial origin, the Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), is beamed into space. This result was obtained using data collected by the four...
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    Cluster reveals the reformation of the Earth's bow shock
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    11-Jan-2007
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    Plasma shock waves are some of the most spectacular, visually striking and energetic events in the Universe (Image 1). Generated by the explosion of stars (supernovae) or induced by stellar winds...
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    Surprisingly erratic X-ray auroras discovered at Jupiter
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    30-Jan-2017
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    ESA and NASA space telescopes have revealed that, unlike Earth's polar lights, the intense auroras seen at Jupiter's poles unexpectedly behave independently of one another.
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    Exploiting the ISO Data Archive - Infrared Astronomy in the Internet Age
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    02-Jan-2003
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    Exploiting the ISO Data Archive
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    No. 257 - End of the twenty-third eclipse season, end of the fourteenth Earth occultation season, continuation of the surface imaging campaign
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    12-Jan-2013
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    Report for the period 3 February to 2 March 2013This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations, from 3 February to 2 March 2013. It includes the end of the twenty-third eclipse...
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    A Viking galaxy found by Hipparcos shows how the Milky Way grew
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    04-Jan-1999
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    A dozen ancient stars, scattered all over the sky, are survivors from asmall galaxy that invaded the Milky Way like a shipload of Vikings. TheEuropean Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite, which...
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    NASA joins ESA's 'dark Universe' mission
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    24-Jan-2013
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    NASA has officially joined ESA's Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the mysterious natures of dark matter and dark energy.
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    Hubble views a bizarre cosmic quartet [heic1514]
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    18-Jan-2015
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    This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gathering of four cosmic companions. This quartet forms part of a group of galaxies known as the Hickson Compact Group 16, or HCG 16 – a...
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    Major Discoveries by Venus Express: 2006-2014
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    14-Jan-2014
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    Major Discoveries by Venus Express: 2006-2014 2. Recent volcanism? Radar and gravity mapping of Venus by NASA's Magellan orbiter revealed many thousands of volcanoes and widespread volcanic plains...
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    Key milestone for Euclid mission, now ready for final assembly
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    18-Jan-2018
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    ESA's Euclid mission has passed its critical design review, marking the successful completion of a major phase in the progress of the project. The review verified that the overall mission...
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    Webb's first space targets chosen
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    13-Jan-2017
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    Gas giant Jupiter, organic molecules in star-forming clouds and baby galaxies in the distant Universe are among the first targets for which data will be immediately available from the James Webb...
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    SMART-1 Mission Review
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    04-Jan-2006
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    In a press conference, held at ESOC on 4 September, the key success of the SMART-1 mission from an operational, technical and scientific perspective were presented. In addition results from the...
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    Rosetta Second Earth Swing-by
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    12-Jan-2007
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    In the evening of 13 November, at 20:57 UTC, the Rosetta spacecraft returns to Earth for a second time after its launch in March 2004. The spacecraft will perform its second Earth swing-by which is...
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    Fact Sheet
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    05-Jan-2010
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    Fact Sheet Fast Facts Rosetta Launch date: 2 March 2004 07:17 UT Mission end: end September 2016 (extended mission) Launch vehicle: Ariane 5 G+ from Kourou, French Guiana Launch mass: 3000 kg...
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    Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars [heic0613]
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    10-Jan-2006
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    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has at last confirmed what philosopher Emmanuel Kant and scientists have long predicted: that planets form...
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    Young stars in old galaxies - surprising discovery with the world's leading telescopes [heic0208]
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    26-Jan-2002
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    Combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of European and American astronomers have made a major discovery. They have identified a huge...
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    Hubble, the black hole finder [heic0002]
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    05-Jan-2000
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    New results by a group of European and American scientistsmake it clear that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is nothing less than a true black hole finder.
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    Marco Polo Mission Summary
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    07-Jan-2011
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    Marco Polo Mission Summary [Note: This summary describes a mission called Marco Polo that was studied by ESA and industry between 2007 and 2010. Another mission named MarcoPolo-R was proposed to...
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    Hubble observes aftermath of massive collision [heic2006]
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    20-Jan-2020
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    What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system, has now seemingly vanished from sight. Astronomers now suggest that a full-grown planet never existed in the first place. The NASA/ESA...
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    12 rare Einstein crosses discovered with Gaia
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    07-Jan-2021
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    Thanks to ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and machine learning, astronomers have discovered 12 quasars whose light is so strongly deflected by foreground galaxies that they are each visible as...
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    Wide Field Imager
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    21-Jan-2006
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    Cosmological studies have shown the Universe's expansion is apparently accelerating rather than decelerating as expected due to gravity. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity requires that some...
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    Phobos-Soil mission summary
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    05-Jan-2012
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    Phobos-Soil mission summary Mars Express view of Phobos. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Phobos-Soil (also known by its Russian name: Phobos-Grunt) was designed for a comprehensive study of...
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    INTEGRAL sees blast travelling with gravitational waves
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    16-Jan-2017
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    ESA's INTEGRAL satellite recently played a crucial role in discovering the flash of gamma rays linked to the gravitational waves released by the collision of two neutron stars.
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    What lies beneath: Venus' surface revealed through the clouds
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    18-Jan-2016
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    Using observations from ESA's Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus' thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the...
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    Rosetta reveals mysterious Lutetia
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    27-Jan-2011
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    On 10 July 2010, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past asteroid (21) Lutetia, one of the largest objects orbiting within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rosetta's encounter revealed...
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    No. 53 - End of Conjuntion Operations
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    13-Jan-2006
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    Report for Period 5 November to 11 November 2006During the reporting period the mission operations have been conducted according to the plan. The solar conjunction ended on 9 November. All data...
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    No. 49 - Conjunction Period Planning Completed
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    20-Jan-2006
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    Report for Period 8 October to 14 October 2006The reporting period contained a spacecraft hardware safe mode which occurred on DoY 282 04:20 UT.
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    HASI
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    15-Jan-2004
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    on 25 December 2004, the Huygens probe descended onto Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
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    HASI
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    15-Jan-2004
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    on 25 December 2004, the Huygens probe descended onto Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
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    Instruments
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    21-Jan-2006
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    On 26 February 2004, ESA issued the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) payload request for proposals. On 15 May 2004 the proposals were received and evaluated by the international Payload Review...
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    Imaging the Interaction of the Heliosphere with the Interstellar Medium from Saturn
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    13-Jan-2009
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    Imaging the Interaction of the Heliosphere with the Interstellar Medium from Saturn with Cassini Publication date: 13 November 2009 Authors: Krimigis, S.M. et al. Journal: Science Volume: 326...
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    Nightglow in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars and Implications for Atmospheric Transport
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    27-Jan-2005
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    We detected light emissions in the nightside Martian atmosphere with the SPICAM ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer on board Mars Express. The UV spectrum of this nightglow is composed of hydrogen Lyman...
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    Gamma-ray burst most energetic event in the Universe!
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    06-Jan-1998
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    A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology announced today that a recently detected cosmic gamma-ray burst was as bright as the rest of the universe, releasing a hundred...
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    New evidence for recent volcanism on Venus
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    08-Jan-2010
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    Emissivity measurements carried out with the VIRTIS instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft indicate that Venus has been volcanically active in recent geological...
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    X-ray emission from the jets of infant stars
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    30-Jan-2001
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    Studying distant stars and their planets in different states of evolution is of great interest to astronomers and of immense importance for astronomy. XMM-Newton has added its contribution with...
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    Icy surprises at Rosetta's comet
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    17-Jan-2016
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    As Rosetta's comet approached its most active period last year, the spacecraft spotted carbon dioxide ice – never before seen on a comet – followed by the emergence of two unusually large patches...
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    A new technique to gauge the distant Universe
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    03-Jan-2015
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    Scientists have developed a technique to use quasars – powerful sources driven by supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies – to study the Universe's history and composition. To...
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    Hubble panoramic view of Orion Nebula reveals thousands of stars [heic0601]
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    11-Jan-2006
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    In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is offering an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star-formation region is one...
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    Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth
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    09-Jan-2012
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    ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like...
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    News Release: Mega starbirth cluster is biggest, brightest and hottest ever seen [heic0312]
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    30-Jan-2003
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    A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest and hottest star-forming region ever seen in space.
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    No. 16 - Ready for payload commissioning
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    21-Jan-2004
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    The spacecraft is now in its 194th orbit, in good status and with all functions performing nominally. As in previous weeks, the ion drive has only generated thrust around the perigee point to...
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    Hubble Assembles Wide View of the Distant Universe [heic1909]
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    02-Jan-2019
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    Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant Universe that documents 16 years of observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image, called the Hubble Legacy Field, contains roughly...
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    Mission Team
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    03-Jan-2012
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    Mission Team The Cassini-Huygens venture is a masterpiece of collaboration, uniting the space agencies, NASA, ESA, and ASI, and scientists and engineers on both sides of the Atlantic. To the...
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    Herschel and Planck honoured with Space Systems Award
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    02-Jan-2015
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    The Herschel and Planck project teams are this year's recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Systems Award.
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    Herschel and Planck honoured with Space Systems Award
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    02-Jan-2015
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    The Herschel and Planck project teams are this year's recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Systems Award.
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