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Flyby success! Solar Orbiter swept past Venus last night, using the planet's gravity to adjust its orbit and grant it a new view of the Sun's polar regions. Everything went as planned 🕹️🛰️✅

📽️ Relax and enjoy #BepiColombo’s views as it flew gracefully around Mercury on 7-8 January 2025. 🎼Playing in the background is 'The Hebrides Overture' by Felix Mendelssohn - can you guess why? 🔭

On Wednesday 15 January, 2025, the @esa.int #ESA_Gaia will cease science operations. This remarkable mission transformed astrophysics, galactic & Solar System science. Read more from Prof Michael Perryman essays: www.michaelperryman.co.uk/gaia-science...

🆕 Our XMM-Newton spacecraft has detected an unprecedented X-ray signal coming from the very edge of a supermassive #blackhole. This defies how we thought matter falls into black holes, and points to a potential source of gravitational waves for ESA’s future #LISA mission 🔭

More on this on Wednesday!

Towards the end of last year, the main components for #VA263, the second flight of Europe’s new #Ariane6 rocket, arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, and are now being assembled. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

😮 WOW! Check out these images from the ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo spacecraft's sixth and final Mercury flyby before entering orbit around the planet in late 2026! www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Check out these new images from the European/Japanese #BepiColombo mission on its final Mercury flyby. 👇 The spacecraft, with UK-built instruments, will increase our understanding of Mercury's composition, structure, and atmosphere. 🌕 Learn more 👉 gov.uk/government/c... 📷 ESA/BepiColombo/MTM