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Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard 😭

What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years 🛰️✨

They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science
A shot of a TV screen with many green squares, interspersed with grey ones spelling out the word “bye”.
#science #astronomy #spacescience

I'm pretty sure I've posted about this before, but I remain baffled.

In the ESA Euclid Early Release Observation image of the Perseus Cluster, there are two strange objects close to the big galaxy, NGC1275.

One appears to be a "double loop" galaxy, with large symmetric loops above & below the plane of an edge lenticular(?)

The other is a pair of reddened point sources wrapped in a loop of nebulosity, at the end of a filament coming out of NGC1275.

Any thoughts on either?

#SpaceScience
A space scene showing a large disturbed galaxy and many others around it in the Perseus cluster, with many more distant galaxies behind. There are some stars as well, presumably in the Milky Way.
An annotated version of the previous image, marking the locations of NGC1275, a strange double loop galaxy, and a filament with a pair of point sources at the end.
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Coming up in 100 minutes at 21:48CET: the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission is making a flyby at Venus, just 379km above the cloud tops.

Although it has made several Venus flybys before, this one's special: it's the first of a sequence designed to lift the spacecraft out of the ecliptic plane.

Why? Because Solar Orbiter is aiming to take the first clear images of the Sun’s north & south poles.

Will there be a polar hexagon like on Saturn? Stay tuned 🌞

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Solar_Orbiter_ready_for_close_encounter_with_Venus

#SpaceScience

Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.
www.esa.int
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Even if I couldn't capture Uranus in my "planet parade" iPhone video this evening, it is easily visible in a long exposure image with the same camera.

Neptune, however, remains a little challenging for such a tiny sensor 🙂

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Photography
An annotated iPhone night mode image showing stars on the night sky. The sky is fairly blue as it was still twilight, but the Pleiades and Hyades star cluster are visible, as are the planets Jupiter and Uranus.
#photography #astronomy #spacescience

Earlier this week, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) made its closest approach to the Sun.

While doing so, it made a dramatic appearance sweeping through the wide-field LASCO C3 coronagraph of the ESA/NASA SOHO mission over a few days.

Here’s my take, a triplet of Deep Red, Orange, & Blue filter images taken over an hour around 09:00UTC on 14 January, as an RGB composite.

#C2024G3 💫
#CometATLAS ☄️
#Perihelion 🌞
#Photography 📷
#SpaceScience 🛰️
A picture of a comet with several tails seen in the field of view of a spacecraft camera. There is a black stick with a round circle at the end of it which blocks the Sun, allowing faint nearby things to be seen. The image has greens and purples in it due to the shifts and rotations introduced to make the moving comet line up in the three sequential black and white images added to make the colour combination.
#photography #c2024g3 #cometatlas #perihelion #spacescience

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