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XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings 20 January 2020
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behaviour and surroundings of a black hole itself.
The Sun in 2019 20 January 2020
Image: The changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019.The satellite is continuously monitoring the Sun – one image was selected to represent each day of the year in this montage of 365 Suns. The images were taken by the satellite’s SWAP camera, which works at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths to capture the […]
Discover our new Solar Orbiter range 17 January 2020
Discover our new Solar Orbiter range
ESA opens oxygen plant – making air out of moondust 17 January 2020
ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
Japanese archipelago 17 January 2020
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Japanese archipelago – a string of islands that extends about 3000 km into the western Pacific Ocean.While the archipelago is made up of over 6000 islands, this image focuses on Japan's four main islands. Running from north to south, Hokkaido is visible in the top right […]