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On 9 December, two little explorers, Bepi and Mio, will part ways as they approach their final destination after a journey that started 8️⃣ years ago today 🥹 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message to cheer them up at this bitter sweet moment. Enter our competition here👉 esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🔭 🧪

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Bepi and Mio are almost at Mercury, and they would love to hear from you 💌 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message for a chance to win a trip to ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Wish them well 👉 esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🫶 🔭

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Bepi and Mio are eagerily checking their inbox waiting to hear from you! 📭 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message and you could win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, this December to experience BepiColombo arrive at Mercury. 💌 Submit your message here 👉esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🔭 🧪

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Juice’s two onboard monitoring cameras will be snapping photos throughout the flyby so stay tuned! Their last images of this event will be taken on 29 September. 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

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Between 15 and 30 minutes before closest approach, Juice will pass over Australia, travelling from northeast to northwest. With the right telescope or binocular equipment, you may be able to track it. Trajectory data can be found here 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/spice/sp... 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

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Juice’s two onboard monitoring cameras will be snapping photos throughout the flyby so stay tuned! Their last images of this event will be taken on 29 September. 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed Jupiter’s aurora. The observations help astronomers better understand how Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is heated & cooled, and may prove useful to our #ESAJuice mission, en route to the gas giant. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

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Happy 36th anniversary, Hubble! 🎊 This is Hubble's gift for you: the Trifid Nebula 🎁, sometimes referred to as the Cosmic Sea Lemon. 🔭 🧪

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It feels like we joined yesterday, yet here we are a community of over 10k 😍 We've had an incredibly positive welcome so thank you to each of you for being here & for following our science news! 🤗 If you think space science should reach more people, give us a shout out 🙌

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Ever wondered what powers a solar flare? 💥 Solar Orbiter is finally giving us answers to this long-standing mystery. The mission caught a 'magnetic avalanche' on the surface of the Sun just before a flare was released. 🔭🧪1/3

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If it's the 14th of the month, it's time for the #ESAJuice bar! The animation below shows Juice's altitude transition from 500 km to 200 km above Ganymede, an update announced earlier this year. The new phase of 30 days at 200 km will enable a more detailed investigation of Jupiter's moon. 🔭

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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) spotted in full glory by #SolarOrbiter. The #comet was observed with the SoloHI instrument from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The encounter happened on 14-25 January, while Solar Orbiter was heading toward #Venus and the comet coincidentally swung by the #Sun. 🔭 🧪

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That was 1 minute 21 seconds none of us will forget 🌑✨ The sky went dark, the corona appeared, and for a moment the whole site went whoaaa.....and cheered! 🫶 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

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We interrupt this feed for a safety reminder: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/cesar/sa... ⚠️ Wear certified eclipses glasses today ⚠️ Sunglasses & homemade filters will *not* protect your eyes ⚠️ Glasses off *only* during totality, and back on the second it ends Ok, back to enjoying the #EuropeanSolarEclipse!

We're live 📡 From Teruel, Spain – the ESA eclipse broadcast has just started, and so has the countdown to totality. Cameras rolling, sky watching. Stay with us 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx... #EuropeanSolarEclipse

🌑 A total solar eclipse isn't just a beautiful sight, it's an occasion to learn more about the Universe. Our Director of Science, Professor @cmundell.esa.int gives us a hint why below 👇 Full story live at 19:30 CEST tomorrow, 12 August 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx... #EuropeanSolarEclipse 🔭

Meet your host for 12 August 🎥 Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock – award-winning space scientist, science communicator, and your guide through the total solar eclipse live from Spain. Here's why you should tune in, in her own words 👇 #EuropeanSolarEclipse 🔭

Solar Eclipse: myth ❌ or fact ✅ ? 🔴 will eclipses vanish one day? 🔴 do regular sunglasses protect your eyes? 🔴 do eclipses only move West to East? Find out with @esa.int astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández. 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

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Hello everyone! We're here to keep you posted on our science space missions! 🛰️ To give you a taste of that, check out this video that takes you from some 14 million galaxies down to one, through a series of ever-deeper zooms - all thanks to our Euclid mission. Full video: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Pew, pew! ☀️The solar wind pours out from the Sun all the time, sending potentially dangerous particles in our direction. But how does it get launched from the Sun in the first place? Thanks to @ESASolarOrbiter, we now have a surprising answer 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭🧪

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This past weekend, our Trace Gas Orbiter and #MarsExpress waved hello to NASA's Europa Clipper as it passed by the Red Planet 👋 1/3 🧪🔭 #planetsci

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Hello, Venus! Heading toward #Venus for a flyby, our #SolarOrbiter mission caught the planet on camera using the SoloHI instrument of the US Naval Research Laboratory. SoloHI was designed to capture the faint light of the solar wind. The much brighter Venus “smears” starlight around the edges. 🔭

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📢 Calling all inquisitive Sun-lovers. We need your help to catch solar outbursts and uncover the secrets of our #Sun. Anybody can get involved. Curious? Find out more here 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 #CitizenScience #AcademicSky

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