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One comet discovered by SOHO is Comet 96P Machholz. It orbits the sun approximately every 6 years and SOHO has seen it 3 times © NASA/ESA/SOHO
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has become the single greatest comet finder of all time discovering its 200th comet as 2010 drew to a close. Drawing on help from amateur scientists around the world the ESA/NASA (European Space Agency/National Aeronautics and Space Administration) spacecraft quietly reached the milestone on 26 December 26, 15 years after it was launched. The accolade is even more impressive as SOHO was specifically designed to monitor the Sun rather than find comets.
18-01-11


A screenshot from the programme JHelioviewer, developed by ESA. The solar image shows a prominence twisting upwards in the atmosphere of the Sun © ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) has developed innovative software that makes it easy for people, regardless if they are experts or not, to access the entire library of images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) with a click of a mouse. The 'JHelioviewer' is ESA's state-of-the-art visualisation software that gives people 'direct' access to the Sun.
10-01-11


Artist's impression shows the super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the nearby star GJ 1214 © ESO/L. Cal�ada
EU-funded researchers have successfully completed the first analysis of the atmosphere of a super-earth, an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth's. The so-called planet GJ 1214b was discovered in 2009 and this latest research confirms initial findings by astronomers in Chile that the planet had an atmosphere. They said the study, presented in the journal Nature, was 'a milestone on the road towards characterising these worlds'. The research was partially funded by a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow grant of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
13-12-10


The main image shows the first area of sky viewed as part of the Herschel ATLAS survey ©S.J.Maddox, H-ATLAS/ESA
A European team of astronomers has discovered a new way of finding cosmic zoom lenses which allow astronomers to peer at galaxies in the distant universe. The ability to study galaxies — that were until now deemed too far away to investigate — will provide key insights into how galaxies have changed over the history of the cosmos, according to the researchers. The results, taken from the very first data revealed by the European Space Agency's Herschel-ATLAS (Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey) project, were recently published in the journal Science.
19-11-10


Hubble captures aftermath of asteroid collision © NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
Astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to observe what happens after asteroids crash together. This was the first time scientists have studied the aftermath of a collision, relying normally on models to make predictions about the frequency of such crashes and the amount of dust they produce. They say the findings will help explain where the dust in the Solar System comes from and may offer answers to other mysteries including how the dusty debris discs around other stars were produced.
29-10-10


This artist's impression of Venus suggests the presence of lightning in the atmosphere (2006) © J. Whatmore
Nowadays, Venus looks like our idea of Hell: temperatures 2 or 3 times that of a kitchen oven, a noxious atmosphere and surface pressures about 100 times that on Earth — and therefore very little water. However, in the past, the planet may have been much more similar to our Earth, and may even have had oceans. Four years into the European mission Venus Express, leading space scientists are unlocking the mystery of this planet.
08-07-10


The geological penetrator will extract a soil sample from the surface of the Martian moon Phobos (pictured above) © Shutterstock
The Space Research Centre at the Polish Academy of Sciences (SRC PAS) in Warsaw, Poland has begun work on a unique 'geological penetrator' that will be used to extract a soil sample from the surface of Phobos, one of Mars' two moons. Dubbed 'CHOMIK' (which is Polish for hamster), the tool will contribute to the Russian space mission Phobos Sample Return. Due to be launched in 2011, the mission will give space scientists vital information about the mysterious Martian moon.
05-05-10


Triton and Neptune in an imaginary space vision © Shutterstock
European astronomers have identified carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of Triton, Neptune's largest moon. They owe their discovery to new technology, including the first ever infrared analysis of Triton's atmosphere. The researchers also made the first ground-based detection of methane in Triton's atmosphere. The results of the study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, will enable astronomers to begin an extensive monitoring of Triton over the coming decades.
03-05-10


In Cygnus X-3, an accretion disk surrounding a black hole or neutron star orbits close to a hot massive star. Gamma rays (purple in the picture) likely arise when fast-moving electrons above and below the disk collide with the star's ultraviolet light © NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope successfully made the first clear detection of high-energy gamma-rays from Cygnus X-3, one of the stronger binary systems in the sky. Located some 37 000 light years away, Cygnus X-3 pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at the speed of light. The findings will offer scientists new insight into the acceleration and movement of high-energy particles. The research, published in the journal Science, is part of the 'GAMMARAYBINARIES' project, which received almost EUR 750 000 in funding under the Ideas Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
04-01-10


Accurate timing of the incoming ENAs allows the IBEX team to obtain a higher resolution in the latitudinal direction. The inset at right shows some of the fine detail of the ribbon © Southwest Research Institute
The first complete maps of our solar system produced by the IBEX space satellite have revealed a bright ribbon-like structure — composed of densely packed atoms — that runs around its edges. An international team of scientists is baffled by the presence of the ribbon, which was not seen by the two previous Voyager satellite missions, and further investigation into its role may lead to exciting new evidence on how the heliosphere really operates. The findings were published in the Science journal.
03-11-09



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