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What's this "transit method" that the #ESA #PLATOmission team will be using to detect extrasolar planets? Experience transits firsthand in our pendulum experiment that models how a planet passes in front of its star and changes the brightness that we can observe, as René Hel…

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Reijo Koskinen, Pekka Katajamaki, Esa Tukia, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Crusell & Jukka-Pekka Saraste:
🎵 Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, Op 3
#ReijoKoskinen #PekkaKatajamaki #EsaTukia #BernhardCrusell

And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…

rickf (@rickf@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Dragon is what the US uses to resupply the ISS, for those that don't know...

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Hugo Alfvén, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester & Esa-Pekka Salonen:
🎵 Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'
#HugoAlfvén #SverigesRadiosSymfoniorkester #EsaPekkaSalonen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carl Nielsen & Esa-Pekka Salonen:
🎵 Maskarade (Overture)
#SwedishRadioSymphonyOrchestra #CarlNielsen #EsaPekkaSalonen