An overview of ESA's roster of upcoming missions, and hopes for the future. Ambitious plans need ambitious funding, so all eyes are on the Council of Ministers in Nov (Bremen), setting ESA budgets for the next 3 years. July interview with @cmundell.bsky.social 🪐 www.techjournal.uk/p/esa-seeks-...

Carole Mundell (@cmundell.bsky.social @esa.int ) is presenting a journey "From Earth to the Fabric of Spacetime" this evening at Glasgow SEC! #GR24Amaldi16

Today at Carole Mundell's (@cmundell.bsky.social ) a few familiar objects can be spotted! This mosaic shows a #GravitationalWave signal in time and frequency @uofgravity.bsky.social Check out the story behind the first mosaic here: (page 17) ligo.org/wp-content/u...

"With Enceladus in sight—& the solar system’s clock ticking— decisions made in Bremen may determine whether @esa.int continues to lead in deep-space science or misses a generational opportunity." My interview with #JeffPao #ukspaceconf #Manchester www.techjournal.uk/p/esa-seeks-...

Ein einzigartiger Blick auf den Mond vom gestrigen #InternationalMoonDay. Als #ESAJuice im August 2024 an unserem Mond vorbeiflog, hörte sein RIME-Instrument Radiowellen-Echos ab, um die Höhe der Mondoberfläche zu ermitteln. Mehr dazu 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Nice collection of big open physics questions for the coming years...

This year it is 10 years since the discovery of #GravitationalWaves in 2015! www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20... @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social #GW150914 #GR24Amaldi16

What a wonderful evening, meeting old colleagues and new at the #GR24Amaldi16, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection - how time flies and now we are constructing @science.esa.int #LISA for the coming decade to probe new scales of spacetime disturbances!

Interesting study. How does your organisation stack up? Recognise all the work your staff contribute to the health of your organisation and ensure equity in contribution _and_ recognition for all. #Leadership

Congratulations to the five companies pre-selected for the @esa.int European Launcher Challenge! Exciting, innovative - a new era in access to space.

Nuestra misión Ariel nos llevará del «descubrimiento» al «estudio y comprensión» de los exoplanetas. La misión estudiará unos 1.000 exoplanetas, desde planetas rocosos hasta gigantes gaseosos, para comprender mejor la relación entre los exoplanetas y sus estrellas progenitoras. buff.ly/LlPBOTx

#OTD 4️⃣0️⃣ years ago: 2 July 1985, ESA's first deep-space probe #Giotto was launched from Europe's Spaceport. Giotto made encounters with comets #Halley and Grigg–Skjellerup, marking the beginning of Europe's cometary adventures️. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @cmundell.bsky.social @science.esa.int

New from Mars Express! A riot of earthy tones – or should that be Mars tones? – on the Red Planet! 🎨 Can you spot the dust devils lurking within? 🌪️😈 Explore the image here 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 📷 @esa.int #MarsExpress 🔭🧪

🛰️ The #Ax4 mission and crew will arrive at the International Space Station tomorrow, Thursday 26 June, with docking scheduled for 12:00 BST / 13:00 CEST. ▶️ Follow the livestream on @esa.int YouTube starting at 10:00 BST / 11:00 CEST. 🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

From Earth to orbit 🌍💫 The #Ax4 crew is now under way aboard the brand-new Dragon capsule 'Grace', en route to the International Space Station. @astro-slawosz.bsky.social and the team are soaring through space on a 28,5-hour journey before docking with the Station. Go #Ignis 🔥 Go #Ax4 🚀 @esa.int

Congratulations Poland!! 🇵🇱 I hope his journey inspires many young Polish people to look up and dream big 🚀

#TourTheUniverse with us! 🔭 Start from a vast cosmic panorama featuring some 14 million galaxies and zoom in until you reach a single swirling spiral galaxy. The final image is enlarged 600 times compared to the 208-gigapixel mosaic. All thanks to #ESAEuclid, our dark Universe detective 🕵️ 🧪

ESA Delivers: discover 50 ways Europe’s space agency changed our world (and the Universe!) during the last five decades 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

Oh, this is nice!

Congratulations to all the teams working at and with @vrubinobs.bsky.social on this exciting milestone. Many years of work, belief and dedication and important science to come.

"She wanted us to know that excellence in science comes from a diversity of thought and experience, not despite it." #WomanAstro #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

Este retrato del telescopio espacial HUBBLE de la NASA/ESA pone en primer plano la galaxia cercana NGC 4449. buff.ly/PGkLb84

🔭 womenshistory.si.edu/blog/life-cu...

Falls ihr es verpasst habt: Solar Orbiter liefert der Menschheit die ersten klaren Bilder vom Südpol der Sonne. ☀️ @science.esa.int‬ Mehr dazu:

Thrilled to speak in iconic #GR24Amaldi16 week in my Alma Mater city & in the 50th Anniversary year of @esa.int as we implement humanity's first-ever space-based gravitational wave interferometer @science.esa.int #LISA & we solve mysteries of the dark Universe with @science.esa.int #Euclid mission.

Learn what we've delivered and what our ambitions are for the future in this, the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the @esa.int Euorpean Space Agency www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

Thrilled to speak in iconic #GR24Amaldi16 week in my Alma Mater city & in the 50th Anniversary year of @esa.int as we implement humanity's first-ever space-based gravitational wave interferometer @science.esa.int #LISA & we solve mysteries of the dark Universe with @science.esa.int #Euclid mission.

We will join @cnes.fr in the ‘Paris Space Hub’ during the #SalonDuBourget taking place from 16-22 June. Catch a glimpse of our programme for the week ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/ESA... #ParisAirShow

DYK? The #ESAEuclid case files is a series of interviews that introduce some of the scientists working with the Euclid public data. Check them out here 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/q... 🧪

Ht @esa.int @science.esa.int

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun’s south pole, which were captured in late March by its Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

Astronomers have used the ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the surfaces of four icy moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon! They were in for a surprising finding 👉 esahubble.org/images/opo25... 🔭 🧪

ICYMI, Solar Orbiter delivered humanity's first clear views of the Sun's south pole ☀️ 🔭 🧪

Descubre el Sol desde un ángulo totalmente nuevo. Por primera vez, nuestra misión Solar Orbiter ha captado imágenes en primer plano de los misteriosos polos del Sol, regiones ocultas durante mucho tiempo a nuestra vista.

The #SolarOrbiter images were taken by: ✔️ PHI, the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager ✔️ EUI, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager ✔️ SPICE, the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment instrument 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 4/

Any image you have ever seen of the Sun so far was taken from around the Sun’s equator. By tilting its orbit out of this plane, #SolarOrbiter reveals the Sun from a whole new angle. 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 3/

“Today we reveal humankind’s first-ever views of the Sun’s pole” says Prof. @cmundell.bsky.social, ESA's Director of Science. “These new unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the beginning of a new era of solar science.” 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 2/

Ready to see the Sun like we never have before? 😎 #SolarOrbiter has just released the first views ever of the Sun’s poles! Thanks to its newly tilted orbit, the mission will uncover details about the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle & space weather 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/

At the south pole, #SolarOrbiter discovered that the Sun’s magnetic field is currently a mess. This image from the PHI instrument shows that there are currently different magnetic polarities (north and south) present at the south pole. This happens when the Sun’s magnetic field flips. 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 5/

The best is yet to come. Over the coming years, #SolarOrbiter will tilt its orbit even further for ever better views of the Sun's polar regions. All ten of the mission's scientific instruments will collect unprecedented data in the years to come. 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 6/

Difficult to find appropriate words to express how significant this achievement is in engineeering, spacecraft dynamics and scientific terms. Humanity's first view of the Sun's South Pole!

#ESAGaia has delivered on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. Discover more about #ourGalaxy with this slider tool 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

We haven’t been able to observe the Sun’s poles. ☀️ Until now… With Solar Orbiter, we can, for the first time, observe how the solar wind flows around the poles - unlocking vital clues about the 11-year solar cycle, which is key to advancing space weather forecasting. ☀️ Learn more 👇

🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle. For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view.

More details on the Gaia contribution from our #ESAGaia team 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/en/web/gaia/...

Using #ESAGaia, astronomers at Uni Hawaiʻi discovered the biggest explosions since the Big Bang 💥 All evidence points towards these being caused by supermassive black holes feasting on massive stars. More from ‪@keckobservatory.bsky.social‬ 👉 keckobservatory.org/ents/ 📸NASA/JPL-Caltech 🔭🧪 #planetsci

Listen to the sounds of #BepiColombo's sixth flyby of Mercury this past January 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6i... This final flyby used the planet's gravity to steer the spacecraft on course for entering orbit around Mercury in 2026. 🔭 🧪

Discover your place in #OurGalaxy. No spacecraft can travel beyond the Milky Way, so we can’t take a selfie, but Gaia is giving us the best insight yet of what our home galaxy looks like 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEZB... 🔭 🧪

Happy 50th @esa.int and @science.esa.int 🎉 . Here's to the next 50!

Happy Birthday to our big, pioneering, innovative and collaborative @esa.int family! #50YearsofESA today/