Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

Another item found on the Fediverse, decentralized social media. This is a new ESA mission to the asteroid Apophis.

Links

• European Space agancy
  • Mission page

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#ESA,#Space,#Mission,#Apophis,#Asteroid

LEGO creates 'space bricks' made from meteorite dust – Physics World

Interesting article from Physics world, on a possible construction solution for bases on the Moon. Lego and a team of scientists from the ESA have created bricks from material from a crushed meteorite and a few other materials

• Space bricks from meteorite dust
• European Space Agency

I have started a Fediverse thread on this topic to ask if this technology could perhaps be combined with Boron Nitride in order to provide extra space radiation shielding.

• Boron Nitride

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#Science,#Lego,#ESA,#Space,#Moon,#MeteoriteDust,#Construction

Image embedded from website below

The next generation of X-ray probe will launch in January 2024. This mission will help us discover more x-ray sources and much more.

• ESA X-ray Lobster-eye
• European Space Agency

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#ESA,#Space,#Science,#Mission,#Einstein,#X-ray,#Probe

The European Space Agency reveals the first stunning Euclid telescope images, showing the universe as you've never seen it before:

Read more here

The difference between the Euclid mission and the JWST

The full-colour photos offer the clearest glimpse yet of the cosmos, as the telescope continues its mission to unlock the mysteries of the furthest reaches of space known as the "dark universe".

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#Space.#ESA.#Euclid,#Telescope

Astro Pi 2023 Challenge coming soon.

What is Astro Pi?

The European Astro Pi Challenge offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

2023 challenge opens mid September.

Please see website for details.

Note: As I run the STEM group, and we are a bring you own projects event, then I am happy for this to be a safe place to meet up and work on projects. However:-

• If you are working on Mission Zero you will need a PARENT / GUARDIAN to help you.
• If you are undertaking Mission Space Lab you will need a MENTOR to help you.
  

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#Computing,#Space,#ESA,#AstroPi,#Challenge

The Euclid space telescope has now sent back it's first images. As reported in New Scientist on 31 July 2023. You can read the full article here

So all good stuff, The telescope can exmine both visible and infrared light.

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#Space,#Euclid,#Astronomy,#Light,#InfraRed.#Visible,#ESA,#NASA,#Science

Due to the weather, yesterdays JUICE launch was scrubbed, they will attempt another launch today.

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Friday April 14th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

• Watch live on Youtube

Links

• Space.com article
  • European Space Agency
  • JUICE Mission
  • NASA
    • NASA Astrobiology

Tags

#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Thursday April 13th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

• Watch live on Youtube

Links

• Space.com article
  • European Space Agency
  • JUICE Mission
  • NASA
    • NASA Astrobiology

Tags

#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Thursday April 13th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

Links

• Space.com article
  • European Space Agency
  • JUICE Mission
  • NASA
    • NASA Astrobiology

Tags

#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch

Interesting video from the European space agency. This was posted to Mastodon so I am sharing here.

A video produced for the Hubble traveling exhibition Our Place in Space in 2017, zooms from Venice out through the Solar System, the Milky Way, the Local Group and into the cosmic web

4 minute video

LINKS

• Posted by Dmitri ☭
• ESA Hubble video
• ESA Hubble
• European Space Agency
• JoinMastodon

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#Video, #Space, #ESA,