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Twenty-year anniversary of the Mars Express: Planetary researchers at Freie Universität Berlin publish color mosaic of Mars with never before seen details Twenty years ago to the day, the European space probe Mars Express began its journey to Earth's "red" neighbor.

Argelander Institute, Matter Transdisciplinary Research Area and enaCom Transfer Center all involved The "MS Wissenschaft" is setting sail from Berlin, and the University of Bonn is among those on board.

The first image from Europe's newest weather satellite, released today, reveals conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic with an extraordinary level of detail.

With the research project "Digital Astronaut - Outboard Mission in Space", the TU Ilmenau has won the university competition "Science Year 2023 - Our Universe".

Harald Hiesinger talks about the European Space Agency's -PANGAEA- training programme and about his job as a course instructor In a few years' time, man wants to return to the Moon.

Philosopher of science Ulrich Krohs and physicist Kai Schmitz talk about the universe Science Year 2023 is devoting itself to the subject of "Our Universe".

Michaela Benthaus at "AstroAccess" in Houston Michaela Benthaus had dreamed of becoming an astronaut since she was a young girl.

Using artificial intelligence methods to prevent collisions of nanosatellites in orbit: This is the aim of a new project in which students are leading the pen.

New-generation satellite carries more advanced instruments for monitoring and forecasting severe weather events Tonight's launch of a highly advanced meteorological satellite from, Kourou, French Guia

EUMETSAT Council approves funding for preparatory activities for innovative polar-orbiting satellite systems EUMETSAT, Europe's meteorological satellite agency, will examine the expansion of its low-Earth-orbiting fleet with new, complementary satellite systems.

Five ERC Starting Grants, highly endowed grants of the European Research Council (ERC), have been allocated to Ruperto Carola in the latest approval round.

IceCube telescope: High-energy neutrinos discovered in galaxy NGC 1068 For over ten years the IceCube Observatory in the Antarctic has been monitoring the light traces of extragalactic neutrinos.

What did the Universe look like more than 12 billion years ago when the first galaxies were forming? To tackle this early cosmic epoch a new junior research group started work this October at Heidelberg University's Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Darmstadt, 19 October - "Current changes to the climate are posing a threat to the Earth.

The world's longest-serving meteorological satellite in geostationary orbit, EUMETSAT's Meteosat-8, has been moved to the "graveyard orbit" after 20 years of life-saving service.

What tasks can nanosatellites perform around the moon or even further away from Earth? A new study at the University of Würzburg aims to clarify this.

With progressing nuclear fusion in the center of a star, brightness, size, and color also change. Astrophysicists can derive from such properties important information on age and mass of a star.

Drill cores in core boxes. A great deal of information can be obtained from the cores, for example about the Moon's orbit, tides, volcanic activity, UV radiation, meteorite impacts, the temperature of the oceans and the atmosphere, as well as the intensity of chemical weathering.

Tobias Buck links machine learning with computer simulations to gain new insights into the origin of galaxies A new research group in the field of computational astrophysics is starting its work at Heidelberg University in August 2022.

The first science image released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was of a gravitational lens, in particular the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.

Ten years ago, researchers at Universität Hamburg jointly initiated a research alliance to digitalize astronomical photographic plates in high resolution, publish these online, and make them available for current research.

On 4 July, the discovery of the Higgs boson particle celebrated its tenth anniversary. Many German universities and institutes took part, including DESY and Universität Hamburg.

The space observatory launches into space with equipment developed and built at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy The mission of the James Webb Space Telescope has been successful so far. After the launch in December 2021, the journey to the observation site in the so-called Lagrange point L2 and a callibration and test phase lasting several months, James Webb will now its delivering the first images.

A global consortium of major space agencies is celebrating 50 years of collaboration Geneva, 17 June 2022 - A global consortium of major space agencies is celebrating 50 years of collaboration in the

Next-generation European meteorological satellites systems will begin to be deployed later this year About 200 meteorologists, climate experts and researchers are gathering in Darmstadt, Germany, from today to prepare for the start of a new era in satellite meteorology in Europe.

EUMETSAT, African Union Commission sign agreement for cooperation on climate monitoring African nations' capacity to mitigate the impacts of climate change have received a significant boost through an agreement designed to share the benefits of Europe's next-generation meteorological satellites.

DFG funds new Emmy Noether junior research group with approximately 1.7 million euros The matter cycle, which is fundamental to the development of galaxies, is the focus of a new Emmy Noether junior research group that has started work at the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University.

The scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is honoured for developing pioneering instruments The 2022 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Frank Eisenhauer of the Max Planck

Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics on the first image of the galactic centre With the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), researchers have successfully imaged the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

When stars like our Sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation.

Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the Arctic Circle.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will take off from New Zealand in July and August 2022 with the German GREAT spectrometer on board for its final twenty observating flights.