This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.
Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.
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These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4K followers
There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.
Edited 1y ago
Here is a timelapse of the #Ariane6 flyover last night as seen from Southern Germany.
The stage was flying 604 km high above Norway when I took these pictures at 21:05 UTC.
Close up image and animation of Comet67P
Full size image 3000x3000: https://flic.kr/p/2q5WmRH
Video: https://flic.kr/p/2q648Ym
ESA Rosetta Orbiter
Instrument: OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera
Target: 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
Altitude: 28 km
Time: 2016-04-23
Filters Near IR + Orange + Blue
Product IDs & more info on Flickr.
Raw image 1/3: https://rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_2016-04-23T06.06.10.011
Credit:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/IAA/INTA
I haven't slept more than 2-3 hrs a night for about 3 or 4 weeks now
We (Mom our #ESA and I) aren't eating well as support for our #MutualAid has been dwindling over time
Tbh I don't think it's changed much at all but I've been running on fumes trying to keep us save from the death machine of #capitalism for over a year now
More in next #hoot but have this in a new tab
A mindblowing set of images of what the flood in #Valencia looks like from space - images of the same region from 8 and 30 October (I've been to the area, this is scary):
▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/Valencia_flood_disaster
image credit: USGS, processed by #ESA
images from the US Landsat-8 satellite
Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543 as seen by ESA Euclid Space Telescope
Full size 3K & full info: https://flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj
Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/NAOJ/AndreaLuck CC BY
Latest data release available on: https//eas.esac.esa.int/sas
Mission: ESA Euclid
Instruments: VIS and NIS
Product Type: MER Mosaic
Release Q1 R1
Filters: HSC G (Subaru Telescope), VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y
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Celebrating the women working on ESA/NASA #SolarOrbiter mission on this #WomenInScience day.
I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character.
What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center.
Warped space, right before your eyes!
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/ #space #science #art #nasa #esa
Well, this is genuinely amazing.
The ESA’s Solar Orbiter has delivered the widest hi-res image of our sun ever taken …
trust me, it’s well worth your time to visit the following link, and download *even the smaller* version, and take a look at our sun in more detail than you’ve ever seen. Just incredible.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/Solar_Orbiter_s_widest_high-res_view_of_the_Sun
Edited 72d ago
A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth.
@technologyreview reports: "The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate."
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