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Haunting portrait: Webb reveals dust and structure in Pillars of Creation
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This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching out. These pillars, flush with gas and dust, ‘bury’ stars that are slowly forming over many millennia. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has snapped this eerie, extremely dusty view of the Pillars of Creation in mid-infrared light – showing us a new view of a familiar landscape.
SOLARIS Industry Day - update
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To support the preparation of the SOLARIS initiative on Space-Based Solar Power, to be proposed at ESA's Ministerial Council next month, the Agency organised the first SOLARIS Industry Day.
The event took place at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands and online on 18 October 2022.
Sidus Space signs MOU with Mission Space for Space Weather Intelligence Data Partnership
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Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet
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NASA generated $71 billion in economic impact in 2021
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US to 'hold Russia accountable' if satellites attacked: W.House
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Ten years: Warsaw at night
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A close encounter with a mysterious moon
Earth from Space: Svalbard
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Extremely high temperatures recorded this summer caused record melting across Svalbard – one of the fastest warming places on the planet. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this rare, cloud-free acquisition of the Norwegian archipelago in August 2022.
Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat
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