Brand-new pics of planet Mercury, just in from the European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft!

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This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.

Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.

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Want to become part of #ESA's science advisory structure?

The ESA Director of Science invites scientists affiliated with institutions in the ESA Member States to express their interest in being a member of the Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC), Astronomy Working Group (AWG), or the Solar System and Exploration Working Group (SSEWG):

▶️ cosmos.esa.int/web/expression-…

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The Euclid space telescope has 2 instruments to analyze light captured by its 1.2 meter 3-mirror Korsch type telescope.

Both instruments have a much wider Field of View compared to JWST and Hubble and have detectors with very large number of pixels.

1. The VISible Imager (VIS) (576 Megapixels) and
2. The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP).

The table below shows some key parameters of the instruments.

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An #ESA mission to #Jupiter is set to launch tomorrow morning. An #Ariane5 carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or #JUICE, spacecraft rolled out to the launch pad in French Guiana Tuesday for the launch, scheduled for 8:15 a.m. Eastern Thursday. JUICE will arrive at Jupiter in mid-2031, making dozens of flybys of the large moons #Europa, #Ganymede, and #Callisto before going into orbit around Ganymede, studying those icy moons and their subsurface oceans.

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Fun Fact #1: #JWST is the LARGEST space telescope ever built! It's so big that the mirrors were folded up to fit in the #ESA #Ariane5 #Rocket that launched it last Christmas

(Yes, this diagram of me standing next to the Hubble and JWST mirrors is to scale!)