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Huygens approaching Titan
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Tracking Huygens during its descent

10/12/2004 1861 views 3 likes
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Gaia spacecraft showing deployed sunshield and solar arrays
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Keeping ESA’s ‘lady of space’ cool

21/09/2004 2314 views 5 likes
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Size comparison between Earth and Mars
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How big are space objects?

23/08/2004 4010 views 3 likes
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Close-up of an Ariane launch
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Surviving extreme conditions in space

27/07/2004 87018 views 353 likes
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Artist impression of a giant black hole
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Discovering missing black holes

11/06/2004 1386 views 1 likes
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Pistol star, one of the Galaxy's brightest stars in Milky Way's core
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Travelling back in time

19/05/2004 3874 views 24 likes
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Will Huygens land or splashdown on Titan?
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ESA’s ‘shipping forecast’ - from Titan!

01/04/2004 857 views 1 likes
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ESA's Integral solves thirty-year old gamma-ray mystery
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ESA's Integral solves thirty-year old gamma-ray mystery

17/03/2004 2217 views 2 likes
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SOHO sees eruptive prominence
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SOHO snaps spectacular Sun shot

16/03/2004 2171 views 1 likes
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Hubble reveals galactic drama
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Looking back in time

09/03/2004 4765 views 6 likes
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Herschel primary reflector mirror after brazing
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The largest telescope mirror ever put into space

23/02/2004 7118 views 23 likes
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The tremendous gravitational pull of a giant black hole
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Giant black hole rips star apart

18/02/2004 4857 views 3 likes
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An artist's impression of the Integral spacecraft
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ESA’s ‘rapid reaction force’

28/01/2004 1279 views 0 likes
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A tale of two record-breaking clusters
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Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters

01/01/2004 1477 views 0 likes
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Galaxy cluster RXJ0847
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What is the Universe made of?

16/12/2003 293880 views 712 likes
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Cluster
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Cluster's current affairs

03/12/2003 729 views 0 likes
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Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003
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The biggest solar X-ray flare ever is classified as X28

06/11/2003 75042 views 166 likes
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Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003
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Biggest EVER solar flare!

05/11/2003 5748 views 6 likes
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The huge solar event of 28 October 2003
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ENORMOUS X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO

28/10/2003 2211 views 0 likes
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Artist's impression of Mars
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Holiday weather on Mars

13/08/2003 3457 views 1 likes
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Artist's impression of the surface of a waterworld
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Searching for the 'real' waterworld

09/07/2003 2595 views 0 likes
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Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst
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Gamma-ray detectives close in on 30-year-old mystery

26/06/2003 2554 views 3 likes
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XMM-Newton measures the magnetic field of a neutron star for the first time
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ESA's XMM-Newton makes the first measurement of a dead star…

11/06/2003 1212 views 0 likes
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The Boomerang Nebula - the coolest place in the Universe?
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Coldest place in the Universe?

31/03/2003 54956 views 101 likes
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A black hole and companion star with supernova
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Speeding black hole

08/11/2002 13220 views 24 likes
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Integral's eccentric orbit
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Integral makes its first measurements

24/10/2002 460 views 0 likes
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The European-built solar arrays being rolled up for transport back to Earth
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Life after retirement for Hubble hardware

20/06/2002 523 views 1 likes
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ESA's gamma-ray detecting spacecraft Integral in the Large Space Simulator
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Extreme machine simulates space conditions

07/05/2002 3816 views 18 likes
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Gamma-ray bursts: the most powerful explosions in the Universe
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ESA's X-ray space telescope proves supernova can cause myst…

04/04/2002 1945 views 1 likes
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Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673
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Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673 [heic0205]

25/03/2002 1490 views 2 likes
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A ball of ionized gas is hurled from the Sun (4 January 2002)
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SOHO sees dazzling eruption from the Sun

07/01/2002 1910 views 1 likes
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