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Hipparcos

Hipparcos

Scientists preparing Hipparcos

Artist's impression of a comet's nucleus

Giotto's instruments and silver-coloured hydrazine fuel tanks

Artist's impression of Gaia, showing modules

Life could arise in a wide variety of environments, for example on the satellite of a giant planet

Life could arise in a wide variety of environments, for example on the satellite of a giant planet

Like different musical instruments, different types of stars produce different types of sound waves

Distances between habitable planets and their parent star vary

Artist's impression of Eddington

Understanding stellar structures tells us the following information

Life could evolve on the satellites of giant planets

Darwin's flotilla of telescopes and communication satellite

Darwin's six telescopes

Malcolm Fridlund

Michael McKay

Jean-Loup Bertaux

Rickard Lundin

Thor missile being launched

Colin Pillinger

Agustin Chicarro

Vittorio Formisano

Con McCarthy

Jean-Pierre Bibring

Giovanni Picardi

Michel Denis

Martin Pätzold

Zarya and Unity are released by Space Shuttle Endeavour after docking

Rudi Schmidt

Colin Pillinger

Alan Smith

Gerhard Neukum

Giovanni Picardi

Colin Pillinger

One of Darwin's telescopes

Michael McKay at his console

Malcolm Fridlund

Stanislav Barabash

Colin Pillinger

Sun-like star and Jupiter-like planet, similar to our own Solar System

Planet Mercury

Mercury - the closest planet to the Sun

Mercury will pass in front of the Sun

Mercury - the closest planet to the Sun

Microquasar GRO J1655-40

Black hole

Close-up of the black-hole system GRO J1655-40

Region around black-hole system GRO J1655-40

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