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Unabhängigkeit und Wachstum: ESA will in Bremen Rekord-Etat
Vom Navi bis zur Wettervorhersage: Auch unsere Sicherheit hängt von Daten aus dem All ab. In Bremen wird nun über die Zukunft von Europas Raumfahrt verhandelt.

ESA-Sonnensonden Proba-3: Zeitraffer zeigt gleich drei heftige Protuberanzen
Die ESA-Sonden Proba-3 erforschen mithilfe von künstlichen Sonnenfinsternissen die Korona unseres Heimatsterns. Nun gibt es einen beeindruckenden Zeitraffer.

During the ESA Director General’s 2026 annual press briefing today - #Ariane 6 reached 5 successful launches earlier than many other heavy launchers. (This stands in stark contrast to the table 1b of https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space25.pdf in which Europe's contribution to the global launch successes in 2025 has been minuscule.)

ESA-Abteilung für astronautische und robotische Exploration kommt nach Köln
Die ESA baut ihren Standort in Köln aus: Das Direktorat für astronautische und robotische Exploration wird künftig seinen Sitz dort haben.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'kínēma' and Sibelius's Second Symphony
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs two works by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, alongside Sibelius's second symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nkxt

Quejarse porque la rama principal de un repositorio se llama "main" en lugar de "master" es suficiente para poner muuuuchs límites con esa persona. Con concertinas y nidos de ametralladoras en ese límite

For Canberra, this means safer, quicker responses. The cameras allow remote operators to judge smoke colour, plume height, wind conditions, terrain and accessibility - all before a fire truck leaves a station.
#ACTRFS #Canberra

Esa-Chef Aschbacher fordert höheren Etat
Der aktuelle Esa-Etat ist ein Rekord. Damit Europa bei der Raumfahrt nicht zurückfällt, solle der kommende noch höher ausfallen, fordert Esa-Chef Aschbacher.
https://www.

Proposed Trump Endangered Species Act changes spark concern
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5613165-trump-endangered-species-act-esa/

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of #protoplanetary disks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00157 -> Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Gaia_finds_hints_of_planets_in_baby_star_systems

Today was the last day of ESA's JUICE Science Working Team Meeting at #mpsgoettingen in Göttingen – with lots of talks, discussions, and planning for the months and years ahead. Thanks to everyone for being here and making the meeting a success!
#ESA

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-data-breach-was-limited-to-servers-with-unclassified-documents/
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an alleged data breach, stating that it aff…

ESA Says Data Breach Was Limited to Servers with Unclassified Documents
ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers.

Why are these people so obsessed with eating bugs? "Oh but millions of people around the world eat bugs" yeah millions of people around the world do all kinds of fucked up shit and I'm not planning to do any of that shit either. Gross. Fuck outta here. I'll have the vegan option. https://www.…

📢 ESA will deutschen Astronauten zum Mond schicken
Die europäische Weltraumorganisation ESA hat mitgeteilt, dass ein deutscher Astronaut an einer Mondmission teilnehmen soll. Wer genau mit zum Mond darf, sagte ESA-Chef Aschbacher nicht.
➡️ https://www.tagess…

ESA will deutschen Astronauten zum Mond schicken
Die europäische Weltraumorganisation ESA hat mitgeteilt, dass ein deutscher Astronaut an einer Mondmission teilnehmen soll. Wer genau mit zum Mond darf, sagte ESA-Chef Aschbacher nicht.

A magnetic avalanche as the central engine powering a solar flare: #SolarFlares, finds Solar Orbiter: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Magnetic_avalanches_power_solar_flares_finds_Solar_Orbiter

¿Cómo anda esa resaca electoral, compatriotas?

ESA will Astronautennahrung aus Luft und Urin herstellen
Die ESA entwickelt mit Solar Foods ein System zur Protein-Herstellung im All. Mikroben sollen aus Luft, Strom und Astronautenurin essbare Nährstoffe erzeugen.

Sunday 4 January 2026
http://esa.act.gov.au/advice-bushfires-namadgi-national-park-stay-informed
#ESA

Die HNA berichtet: ESA startet Mond-Offensive – Göttinger Forscher mischen bei Missionen mit
Ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine
https://www.hna.de/lokales/goettingen/goettingen-ort287…

Pretty much every subsidiary website on the @… seems to have gone offline...
Just me?
https://climate.esa.int/en/news-events/

☄️ Comet #3I/ATLAS is currently making its closest approach to the Sun.
#ESAJuice might catch the best view of this comet in a very active state. Juice will attempt observations in November 2025, with data received on Earth in February 2026
👉

Comet 3I/ATLAS – frequently asked questions
Note that this list is regularly updated as we learn more about comet 3I/ATLAS

He leído por ahí que en el consejo de aplicación de leyes del Consejo de la UE ayer, en el debate sobre ChatControl, la posición española (es decir, del gobierno del PSOE) fue una defensa a ultranza de aplicar esa ley con todo el redactado y mšs. Las leyes mordaza que iban a derogar les saben a poco

Vi närmar oss dagen när jag för första gången ska få höra György Ligetis Requiem live. Berwaldhallen, Radiosymfonikerna, Esa-Pekka och Gretas mamma. Jag börjar redan bli nervös.

ESA bekommt Rekordetat von 22 Milliarden Euro
Europa bekennt sich zur Raumfahrt: Die ESA-Mitgliedsländer haben einen Rekordetat für die Raumfahrtbehörde ESA beschlossen.
https://www.heise.de/news…

RE: https://floss.social/@rdnielsen/115652185545566993
Justo este año nos pusimos esa vacuna, pega fuerte, pero ademšs de proteger del herpes zóster esa protección contra la demencia estš 👌
Lamentablemente todavía no la han traído al país, así que si …

Finally an RGB image of comet #3IATLAS from images taken by #GeminiNorth during the 26 November #shadowTheScientists session: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2532/ - the coma has become bluer due to more gas emission. Also published today: an X-ray image by XMM-Newton at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/XMM-Newton_sees_comet_3I_ATLAS_in_X-ray_light with explanations in http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005646.txt which also contains more 3I news.
Meanwhile the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2915 claims an upper limit for 3I's nucleus diameter of only some 750 meters from the measured non-gravitational acceleration (NGA) parameters: that would be waaay more stringent than the 5.6 km upper limit from early Hubble observations reported in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8d8 (where also a lower limit of 440 meters is stated).

Mi vecina estš un poco (un poco bastante) sorda, y su hija no ha tenido mejor idea para regalarle estas navidades que un altavoz inteligente con Alexa integrado.
Llevo unos 20 minutos escuchando en bucle "que alguien saque a bailar a la Morocha", y yo con gusto la sacaba, pero no sé quién es esa Morocha, y tampoco sé bailar.
A este paso voy a acabar poniéndome un Jack Daniel's con Voll-Damm.

A second #planetesimal collision in the #Fomalhaut system: #Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time / Zerstörerische Kollisionen in einem jungen Planetensystem: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_sees_asteroids_colliding_around_nearby_star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroids-colliding-at-nearby-star-for-first-time/ / https://www.mpg.de/24356362/fomalhaut-staubwolken-durch-kollisionen

La última luz en el bush.
Estaba en el Parque Nacional Kruger de Sudšfrica, lo seguimos a una distancia respetuosa mientras se movía entre los matorrales espinosos: lento, silencioso, casi ingršvido. Desde detršs de las ramas, sus ojos mostraban esa mezcla inconfundible de concentración y agotamiento. Parecía delgado, débil… y cuando se acercó un poco mšs, la verdad salió a la luz: heridas profundas, probablemente de una pelea con otro leopardo o depredador, y un cuerpo que parecía qued…

Esa-Chef: Ein Deutscher könnte der erste Europäer auf dem Mond sein
Deutschland gehört zu den größten Beitragszahlern der ESA. Deshalb könnte auch ein Deutscher der erste Europäer sein, der zum Mond fliegt.

Qué guay. Ya podemos hablar con una IA que se hace pasar por un ser querido que ha fallecido. Lo que sea para monetizar esa basura.

European Space Agency, not an agency known to be alarmist is ringing everything right now. There's far too much #SpaceJunk.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/esa-slaar-alarm-skrot-og-satellitter-truer-vores-fremtid-i-rummet

Simultaneously NASA and ESA have published new spacecraft images of #3IATLAS, https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/12/04/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-revisits-interstellar-comet/ from the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 November (just the inner coma with a central condensation) and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Comet_3I_ATLAS_shows_activity_in_Juice_navigation_camera_teaser from Juice's NavCam on 2 November with an early sighting of the plasma tail - more contributions to understanding the behavior of the interstellar visitor.

Idioteces tecnológicas dichas en las presentaciones oficiales de candidatos para las #EleccionesCR2026 del TSE:
Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz dijo que para mejorar la salud iba a usar blockchain, sí, esa tecnología que nos vendieron como una revolución tecnológica pero que no ha servido para nada mšs que para estafar gente y gastar en electricidad y habilitar lavado de dinero digital.

Sí, Inteligencia Artificial, "dat ass" se refiere exactamente a eso xD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoticiasRock/115701450541833602
A esa banda nunca la he escuchado. Ojalš vengan a Chile pronto. (?)

Does the solar magnetic field migrate towards the poles faster than expected? Results using data from #ESA ’s #SolarOrbiter spacecraft are published today in #ApJL:

#Sentinel6B "was delivered into orbit just under an hour after liftoff, and at 07:54 CET ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany received the all-important signal via the Inuvik ground station in Canada, indicating that Sentinel-6B is alive and well": https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6/Sentinel-6B_launched_to_extend_record_of_sea-level_rise

Dust, sand and wind drive slope streaks on #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65522-4 -> Swoosh! https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/11/Swoosh

#Canberra #Namadji #Bushfires
ADVICE: Bushfires - Namadji National Park - Stay Informed | ACT Emergency Services Agency

As @coreyspowell.bsky.social has written;
NASA is sending the OSIRIS-APEX mission to Apophis.
It is already in the sky and will arrive just after the 2029 flyby.
Trump and those with him tried to illegally shut down OSIRIS-APEX in 2025 May.
Members of Congress intervened to keep it going.
h…

For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

On December 17, 2025 at 2:01 a.m. local time (5:01 UTC, 6:01 CET), Arianespace will launch #Galileo L14, a pair of satellites, with Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana: at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6lSJ0mOBU a webcast from 4:30 UTC, at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Follow_the_Galileo_launch_L14_campaign some updates.

Bodenproben vom Roten Planeten: „Mars Sample Return“ bei der NASA vor dem Aus
In einem komplizierten Manöver wollten die NASA und die ESA Bodenproben vom Mars zur Erde bringen. Daraus wird aber nichts, die USA drehen den Geldhahn zu.

An international group is organizing an observing campaign through the Citizen Science Working Group of the #LUMIO mission: LUMIO is an ESA space mission to observe lunar #impact flashes (LIFs) from space, on the lunar far side (#Geminid meteoroid stream, 13-15 Dec 2025. During the maximum of the stream, the number of visible impact flashes will be higher than during non-shower times, therefore there is a good chance of detecting at least some impact flashes.
Observations can be made using moderately-sized telescopes and a video camera. On the website https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/home_page.php there are now a recording of a thorough talk about the project and its slides at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000001 and slides about the preferred analysis software ALFI at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000002 -if you want to join in the LGC please sign on by 21 November.

Pobre gente que tiene que usar una IA para generar una foto con la bandera de EEUU.... supongo que no hay ninguna foto de esa bandera en ningún banco de fotos.

In recent trials, the elderly satellite #Sentinel-2A was switched on at night to see how it would perform in the dark – and the results have been strikingly positive, offering encouraging news for the follow-on Copernicus Sentinel-2 Next Generation mission, currently in development: #ALAN #LightPollution

#PSA
Long Gully Road is closed in the eastbound direction.

Motor Vehicle Incident - Long Gully Road, Tuggeranong | ACT Emergency Services Agency
#Tuggeranong #Canberra
Edit for spelling

Pequeño recordatorio para los/las que estéis hasta los mismísimos de los servicios de streaming de música, de que con syncthing, y conocimientos de andar por casa, podéis tener vuestra carpeta de música sincronizada en todos vuestros dispositivos sin depender de ningún servicio cloud. La escucha es offline totalmente, syncthing lo único que hace es sincronizar las carpetas; así si añades en tu pc un šlbum nuevo a tu biblioteca, esa carpeta aparecerš en tus otros dispositivos que tengas con s…

Finally some details - missing at the presser - about the ESA ministerial's decisions: #Apophis. Also the big Argonaut lunar lander has a first mission, but the actual payload isn't mentioned yet.

Deimos Over Mars,
Terra Sabaea
- ESA Hera Mission
- From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social)
- https://flic.kr/p/2qRV5QD
https://…

Yo creo que a cierta edad hay que superar esa idea que te hace creer que solo la música que tú escuchas es la buena y que eso te da una especie de superioridad intelectual frente al resto.
Re: https://x.com/FlopiBuenaOnda2/status/2005397778562949324

How should #Mars samples be handled upon arrival on Earth? What measurements are necessary to unlock their full scientific potential? In a new report, the Measurement Definition Team of #NASA and #ESA

SOHO’s 30-year legacy of observing the Sun: #SOHO celebrates thirty years: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SOHO/Sun-watcher_SOHO_celebrates_thirty_years and https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-esa-sun-observatory-marks-30-years/

Worrying new simulations show that a solar storm on par with the infamous Carrington Event
could potentially wipe out every single satellite orbiting our planet,
leaving us in a precarious and expensive predicament.
And experts say such a powerful solar storm is inevitable and will hit our planet sooner or later.
On Sept. 1, 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a brilliant flash of light coming from a gigantic sunspot that was about the same size as J…

The next solar superstorm could wipe out 'all our satellites,' new simulations reveal
New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting satellites — and it is a question of "when," not "if" this will happen, experts say.

Estoy escuchando por enésima 1 vez el "Different Class" de Pulp y cada vez me encanta mšs ese disco. ¡Cušnta genialidad en esa obra maestra de la cultura pop! Lo amo.
#Pulp #DifferentClass

And the Press Conference from the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level has begun with 1 hour delay: https://watch.esa.int/Two/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Esa Williams:
🎵 Kwanini
#EsaWilliams

Windows 11 día 1. ¿Cómo es que no es posible configurar un teclado Dvorak? ¿¿¿¿PERO QUÉ MIERDA ES ESA????

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM - birth of an ultrafast outflow during a soft flare: #BlackHole outburst observed similar to outbursts on the Sun / Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds: https://www.sron.nl/en/actueel/eruptie-zwart-gat-waargenomen-vergelijkbaar-met-zonne-uitbarstingen/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/Flaring_black_hole_whips_up_ultra-fast_winds

ESA’s space probe #JUICE is headed towards a truly unexpected encounter: on November 2nd, observations of interstellar object #3IATLAS will begin. Read more about contributions from #mpsgoettingen

Now simultaneously on #Soyuz MS-28 docking to the ISS - and on https://watch.esa.int/Two/ a (slightly delayed) press conference from the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level.

Ten years ago the pioneering and highly influential British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) dedicated their classic song 'Electricity' to ESA astronaut Tim Peake ahead of his #ISS mission - the result was the nice music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADAqhrWpD8 using images from the station by A. Gerst taken a year earlier.

The launch of the #Copernicus satellite Sentinel-1D was a complete success: https://newsroom.arianespace.com/with-ariane-6-arianespace-successfully-launches-copernicus-sentinel-1d-satellite and https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Sentinel-1D_reaches_orbit_on_Ariane_6. And it came with great views from rocket cameras: some screencaps in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-2-november-2025/#Nov04 (scroll down a bit).

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

Selfie aus dem Reinraum: Dreharbeiten für Sat1regional führten ein Kamerateam jetzt in einen unserer Kontrollräume. Von dort hatten unsere Gäste einen guten Blick in unsere Reinräume. Dort arbeiten Wissenschaftler*innen und Ingenieur*innen in Reinraumkleidung und unter saubersten Bedingungen an Weltrauminstrumenten.
Eines dieser Instrumente ist das Submillimetre Wave Instrument (SWI) der ESA-Mission JUICE. Während das eigentliche Instrument an Bord von JUICE in den vergangenen Wochen d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Esa Williams:
🎵 Kwanini
#EsaWilliams

#ESA ’s and #JAXA ’s upcoming space mission #RAMSES, which will rendezvous with near-Earth #asteroid

Ten minutes til the launch of #Transporter15 in #Vandenberg with 140 (!) small satellites including the pay-per-view astronomical observatory #Mauve: https://www.spacex.com/launches/transporter-15 with a webcast at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDNLQdPAJV mirrored by https://watch.esa.int/Two/

While the #Soyuz docking - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/27/three-new-crew-members-aboard-soyuz-dock-to-station/ - came even slightly ahead of time, the ESA presser is now already delayed by 50 minutes.