Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied the phenomena to better understand Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

#space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomass

As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning nearly two decades, the dataset offers the clearest global picture yet of how forest carbon stocks have changed over time.

Developed through ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, this new long-term record integrates data from multiple satellite missions – and will soon be further enhanced by data from the Biomass mission itself.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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If you can afford to send Katy Perry to Space,

You can afford to pay more taxes

#amazon #tax #space #rich

Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit

In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. After over three decades of scrutinising our Universe, Hubble remains a household word as the most well-recognised telescope in scientific history.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun

Image: Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

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A new space age for forests – but groundwork still matters

A new era of forest monitoring is quite literally taking off, ushering in what scientists are calling the ‘forest space age’. On April 29, ESA will launch its revolutionary Biomass mission, the first satellite to carry a P-band radar into space – technology that is set to transform how we understand forests and the carbon they store. Along with other space agencies’ instruments already in orbit or soon to be launched, there has never been so many ‘eyes in the sky’ focused on forests.

Yet, the work of people on the ground –often in the most remote and challenging forest regions – also remains essential.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 😞

So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 💗

#retrocomputing #msdos #windows #vintagecomputing #ai #lego #scifi #amiga #linux #doctorwho #drwho #startrek #starwars #space #uk #lgbtq #3dprinting #woodworking #discworld #reading

ESA links with Japan for speedy and secure communications

People will communicate up to a thousand times faster using high-capacity optical links between satellites, thanks to a partnership agreed today between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Space Compass Corporation in Japan.

#telecommunications #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Earth Observation Excellence Award 2025 winners

In recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific advancement and innovation using Earth observation data, the ESA Earth Observation Excellence Award is presented annually to early-career researchers.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

Growing Algae on Mars

It's a long way to Mars, and explorers headed there will either have to take enough food and supplies to last the whole trip or use in-situ resources to make what they need. A recent ESA Discovery project led by the Universitat de València explored whether microalgae extracted from lichen could survive on Mars and be used to produce oxygen, food and other useful substances.

#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down further & tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/ #science #nature #space

I feel like we could all use some good news right now, so here you go: Bright comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will become visible in the evening sky starting tomorrow night.

Clear view to the west essential. Sharp eyes highly recommended. Pointers at the link.

https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/bright-comet-evening-view/ #space #science #astronomy #nature #photography

The world is indeed becoming like a really bad bad dark comedy.

I suggest they take a shit from there to see how it lands on Earth. They are already shitting all over the planet anyway...

At the same time:

Yeah....not much can be said...

#nasa #space #spacex #billionairs #capitalism

👨‍🚀🚀 3... 2... 1... Liftoff!

Last night, Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, #Ariane6, successfully made its inaugural flight.

Ariane 6 can launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation.

It is a key step towards secure and autonomous 🇪🇺 access to #space.

Congratulations to the teams at European Space Agency, National Centre for Space Studies, Arianespace on this success!

📷© ESA

Still some hope. Also a chance for some robotic gallows humor, I suppose. The robots did deploy, even though the craft landed basically upside down.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade | Mashable • https://mashable.com/article/japan-moon-landing-recent-images

#space #moon #mission #japan

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For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!

#gingerbread #astronomy #radioastronomy #space

The "USS Western Morals" warship captured while departing Red City, just few days before her sudden disappearance.
While the incident is still under investigation, feel free to reply with your own theory about what happened.

Quick digital color over this one before ending the day.
#scifiart #spaceship #space #spacefiction