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• Read ESA's Strategy 2040

  | Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0100
  

  ESA's Strategy 2040

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• Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sail

  | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:07:00 +0200
  

  The next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, has begun its journey from Europe to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in November. Carefully packed into a climate-controlled container, the satellite is currently crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the cargo ship Industrial Dolphin.

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• How do scientists calculate the probability that an asteroid could hit Earth?

  | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000
  

  The 2024 YR4 asteroid may come close to Earth, but how do experts calculate this potential impact?
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• The Milky Way brightens the moonless summer sky this week: Here's where to look

  | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000
  

  Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
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• This star escaped a supermassive black hole's violent grips — then returned for round 2

  | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000
  

  A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to let the cosmic titan take another bite!
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• Rare sight from space: Snow dusts the dry Atacama Desert | Space photo of the day for July 23, 2025

  | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:30:00 +0000
  

  The Atacama Desert in Chile recently received some snowfall, causing issues for the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope.
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