☄️ Fireball observed over Spain and Portugal!
On 2 November 2025 at 20:41 CET, ESA’s fireball camera in Cáceres, Spain, recorded a bright bolide streaking northwest over Portugal. It was travelling at approximately 81 000 km/h.
Credit: ESA/PDO/AMS82 - AllSky7
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
04.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 85 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 3
First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍
Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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07.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 233 🔁 67 💬 5 📌 15
Ramses: ESA’s mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis
Check out the new trailer for @esa.int's proposed Ramses mission! 🍿📽️
Ramses would escort the cruise-ship-sized asteroid Apophis through its safe but exceptionally rare flyby of Earth in 2029: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
13.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 66 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 7
Hera’s first year in space
Happy launch anniversary to ESA's Hera mission! 🎂🥳
One year ago ESA's first planetary defence mission was stranded on Earth, its launcher grounded, as a hurricane closed in on its launch site. What a difference a year makes! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
07.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 67 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 4
☄️ 🔭 #3I/ATLAS comet update!
On 3 October, our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars.
Read more: esa.int/Science_Expl...
07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 163 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 10
¡Atardecer de pintura en Fráncfort!
04.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two years ago, asteroid 2023 CX1 was spotted seven hours before it struck Earth's atmosphere over northern France. Now, researchers have published an analysis of the event and the recovered meteorite that challenges our asteroid hazard models: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Image: M. Uzzal
02.10.2025 10:32 — 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
Astronomers Just Found Dozens of New Asteroid ‘Families’
Many asteroids are related, but their family trees can be hard to trace
Sure, you have family issues, but at least none of your siblings slammed into you at 18,000 kilometers per hour and sent your shattered pieces flying off into space with similar orbital elements.
I mean, probably.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/aste...
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26.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 247 🔁 31 💬 14 📌 5
ESA’s new project to keep an eye on Moon strikes
Every day, Earth is bombarded by tiny asteroids and meteoroids, most too small to even be detected. But what if we could study these space rocks by watching their impacts on the Moon? A new ESA projec...
🌔 Every day, Earth is bombarded by tiny asteroids, most too small to even be detected. But what if we could study those impacting the Moon?
ESA's NELIOTA-III #HorizonEurope project closely monitors Moon impact flashes and just released its first observations.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
23.09.2025 13:50 — 👍 106 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 6
ESA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automated detection systems, ESA astronomers began ...
Comet #3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object we've ever spotted ☄️
Discovered in July, the comet is making its way through our Solar System, carrying onboard clues about the formation of worlds far beyond our own.
Follow its journey & what we learn about it 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪
09.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 145 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 2
Asteroid 2025 FA22 will safely pass Earth on 18 September 2025 at 07:41 UTC (09:41 CEST). It is between 130 and 290 m across and at its closest point to our planet, it will be just over twice as far away as the Moon.
Asteroid 2025 FA22 will safely pass Earth on 18 September 2025 at 07:41 UTC (09:41 CEST). It is between 130 and 290 m across and at its closest point to our planet, it will be just over twice as far away as the Moon.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
16.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 98 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 6
Zooniverse
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
Para los que les pueda interesar un proyecto de ciencia ciudadana para descubrir asteroides, aquí va este nueva nueva iniciativa de Zoouniverse:
www.zooniverse.org/projects/ias...
17.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way
Como he comentado en más de una ocasión, la misión #Gaia de la @esa.int ha sido una auténtica maravilla que ha dado infinitud de resultados en diferentes áreas de la astrofísica. Aquí va otro más:
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
16.09.2025 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks @georginatorbet.bsky.social for fixing the subtitle!
16.09.2025 06:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our #NEOCC monthly newsletter is already out. Check it out here!:
neo.ssa.esa.int/-/latest-new...
08.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
¡Correcto!
29.08.2025 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEOCC - NEO
Near Earth Objects Coordination Centre
Desde la Oficina de Defensa Planetaria de la @esa.int, hago notar que ya hemos sobrepasado los 39000 asteroides cercanos a la Tierra descubiertos. La cifra es impresionante si lo comparamos con que hace 25 años sólo conocíamos unos 1000.
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28.08.2025 06:53 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication campaign
Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.
🛰️ Four laser links and a cat? ESA has wrapped up its interplanetary optical communication campaign with NASA's Psyche spacecraft. The successful campaign demonstrates Europe's readiness to support the future of high data rate, deep space optical communication.
www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
27.08.2025 14:56 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Este lunes participo de ponente sobre Defensa Planetaria en la
@esa.int en un SpaceCamp CASSINI. ¡Gracias a Arribes por su invitación! Estoy seguro de que los 25 chavales van a tener una experiencia inolvidable.
@operations.esa.int #PlanetaryDefence #PlanetaryDefense
17.07.2025 10:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ESA's astronomers are actively tracking 3I/ATLAS, which is now the third confirmed interstellar comet to pass through our Solar System!
More info at: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
03.07.2025 16:33 — 👍 307 🔁 73 💬 6 📌 19
Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!
ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
02.07.2025 08:23 — 👍 395 🔁 128 💬 14 📌 38
3rd interstellar object discovered? Maybe. There's a lot of buzz right now in the Astro community. More observations should come in tonight to confirm if A11pI3Z is from beyond the solar system.
02.07.2025 04:38 — 👍 104 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 11
Everything, the Universe, and Life
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Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
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Rocket ship enthusiast, pizza connoisseur, I like to study holes in the ground, avid lover of all things pumpkin (except PSL) and Christmas trees
Profesor del Área de Parasitología y Director de Divulgación Científica en la Universidad de Almería. En Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/@UnpaseoconDarwin
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Physicist, planetary defender and passionate space/science-geek
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Space Artist, sky observer and photographer. Processor of space images. Interested in Astronomy, Planetary Geology, history and in what the future may bring.
Physicist, airburst specialist, planetary defender, & CSI Fellow. I'm critical of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) which has strong links to global warming denial, creationism, & pseudoarchaeology. It relies on misinformation & fake peer review.
