Scholars consulting archival documents at the HAEU
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A shiny, golden spacecraft at the centre of the frame stretches out its two solar panels towards the top and bottom. The panels are not quite fully stretched, with two slight bends in each. In the background, we see Earth, with the horizon curving from left to right across the top third of the frame.
📣 Call for journalists: attend the Smile launch media event at Europe’s Spaceport!
Smile is a scientific collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Science. The mission will study how Earth responds to the solar wind.
Registration details 👉 www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre... 1/2
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#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to join the media programme for the launch of #Smile on Vega‑C #VV29, launch window 8 April – 7 May.
🔗 esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Call_for_interest_media_programme_for_launch_of_Smile_mission_at_Europe_s_Spaceport
@science.esa.int @transport.esa.int
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🔬
To celebrate, we asked women from across our member organisations to share one piece of advice they received that helped them get to where they are today.
What advice has made an impact on you!
Read more: www.eiroforum.org/news/eirofor...
It's just over a year since we joined @bsky.app. Check out our updated #StarterPack and see what's changed!
Cover of the book "Schwarze Löcher: Schwere Kost, leicht verdaulich" written by me.
Mostly fback and white digital drawing titled 'The confernce audience' showing six little doodles showing typical conference audience members - each with a short description. A stick person panicky hinding behind their laptop and panicky typing - the postdoc panicky finishing their talk. A screen with black square - remote participants: black boxes asking questions. A phone screen showing the photo of a talk slide - the person running the conference twitter feed: always taking pics with their phone. A stick person head, sleeping - the transatlantic colleague sleeping of their jet lag. Stick person in a PhD hat behind their laptop, raising their hand while continuing to type with another hand - the senior faculty emails from their provost & asking the occasional very pointed question.
Mostly black and white digital drawing of the JWST, with gold highlight for the mirror and some of the electronics.
Seven ink and aquarelle postcards; two showing the city if La Plata, three cute houses in El Chaltén und Puerto Natakes and two flowers and berries from Patagonia
Ooooh, #PortfolioDay? Nice :D
I'm Victoria. I'm an astrophysics and artist doing scientific/academic illustrations.
I've recently published a book on black holes with my own illustrations (only in German so far, sorry!) and when on holidays, I love making […]
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Don't miss the Space Diplomacy session including #ESA speaker. #ScienceDiplomary #InternationalScience
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPwD.
ESA keeps moving forward the conversation to break down barriers and make space and science accessible to all.
#EveryoneIncluded #AccessibleWorld
🌞🛰️Sun-watcher SOHO turns 30! 🎂
"SOHO has overcome nail-biting challenges to become one of the longest-operating space missions of all time" – Prof. @cmundell.esa.int , ESA Director of Science
👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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📡 2025 marked a landmark year for #Estrack, ESA’s global network of ground stations.
Since its inception in 1975, Estrack has formed a vital communication bridge between satellites in orbit and mission control at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC).
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...
A remarkable Ministerial Council for @esa.int & @science.esa.int. Record €22.1 bn overall & historic budget for Science.Thanks to our member states for this vote of confidence & to our DG @josefaschbacher.esa.int for putting frontier science & technology at the heart of European leadership in space
We've signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø 🌍❄️
@josefaschbacher.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
The #CM25 historic increase of 3.5% per year beyond inflation for Science will enable some of the most imaginative missions in our history and bolster European scientific leadership.
First step: deliver the #CosmicVision missions such as LISA & NewAthena. The next great leap is #Voyage2050 🔭 🧪
22.1 billion euros subscribed.
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.
A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
L'Arctique est un écosystème scientifique majeur, qui revêt également une importance économique et géopolitique considérable.
L'Agence Spatiale Européenne et la Norvège étudient la possibilité d'un centre spatial arctique, qui serait hébergé à Tromsø.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
What's at stake for the Directorate of Science at ESA's Ministerial Council? And what do decisions taken there mean for European citizens?
Prof. @cmundell.esa.int explains 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Kl...
🔭 🧪 #CM25
European Space Agency: Marking One Year Until BepiColombo Reaches Mercury www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
European Space Agency: The Epic Adventures of BepiColombo – Part 2: It’s a Long Way to Mercury www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Artist's impression of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, which has a frozen surface covering a deep ocean. Jets of water burst from cracks close to the moon's south pole.
Saturn's moon #Enceladus is a top target for us in our #Voyage2050 long-term planning period.
No space agency has ever landed on Enceladus. And yet this moon has enormous potential for new science, particularly in the realm of habitability.
1/ #CM25 🔭
Next week, at our @esa.int Ministerial Conference in Bremen, Germany, the governments of our 23 member states set the ambition of Europe in space, through their financial & mandate to our DG Dr @josefaschbacher.esa.int. We have prepared an exciting, important and ambitious proposal. #TheTimeIsNow
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESAC site in Spain.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESRIN site in Frascati, Italy.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESEC site in Belgium.
Image of the progress pride flag flying at our ESOC site in Darmstadt, Germany.
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
Imaginer et préparer le futur afin d’orienter la recherche et les politiques publiques, tel est le but de la prospective. Un exercice périlleux, soulignent les scientifiques. Ingrédients requis : le dialogue entre les disciplines et des modèles robustes répondant aux multiples incertitudes.
Part of #CosmicVision, #Smile is a joint European–Chinese mission that will give us a global picture of the interaction between the Sun and Earth.
By improving our understanding of geomagnetic storms, solar wind and space weather, Smile will help keep our technology & astronauts safe.
1/ #CM25 🔭
An artist’s impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. Swirling red and orange patterns surround the star, suggesting intense activity. In the background, a smaller blue planet appears with a faint, wispy trail extending away from it, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. The scene is set against a dark space backdrop dotted with stars.
📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own!
Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Les personnes atteintes de TDAH - Troube de Déficit de l'Attention (avec ou sans Hyperactivité - ont un avantage sous-estimé : l’hypercuriosité.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff est neuroscientifique.
Atteinte elle-même de TDAH , elle en a fait son sujet de recherche :
www.sciencenews.org/article/adhd...
Mr Jun Kazeki, Director General of the National Space Policy Secretariat in the Cabinet Office of the Japanese PM, with ESA's Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director of Strategy, Legal and External Matters.
view of a section of ESA's Tokyo office space.
View of the keynote session given by Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director of Strategy, Legal and External Matters, at Nihonbashi Space Week 2025, marking more than than 50 years of achievements shared by Europe and Japan.
🇯🇵 We're establishing a new presence in Tokyo, Japan, our first in Asia! Our new ESA office in Tokyo will serve as a strategic outpost for deepening bilateral engagement, and sets the course for an ambitious new chapter in European-Japanese space collaboration🤝
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...
Seas of the Sun is a film about the Cluster mission. Ahead of the @esa.int premiere this Thursday go behind the scenes with our Mission Notes podcast. Episode one is all about how we tackled this incredible story. #ESACluster #spacerocks #seasofthesun shows.acast.com/spacerocks
Pour notre vie quotidienne, nous dépendons d’objets placés en orbite.
L’accès à l’espace est stratégique — face à la Chine et aux États-Unis, les Européens commencent à s’en rendre compte.
Nous rencontrons @josefaschbacher.esa.int, directeur de @esa.int .
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/10/2...
"Space has always been driven by geopolitics — sometimes more, sometimes less. "
geopolitique.eu/en/2025/10/2...
We were thrilled to screen Seas of the Sun in Paris for a very special audience of space plasma scientists.
We'll be hosting an online screening and live chat on October 30th at 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET. Watch this space! 🖖🤘 #seasofthesun #ESAcluster #spacerocks @esa.int youtu.be/Go_rve555TQ?...
