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#SpaceX will mit seiner neuen Plattform Space Safety Kollisionen zwischen #Satelliten verhindern. 🤦♂️
Doch das wachsende Problem des #Weltraumschrotts bleibt weitgehend unberücksichtigt. Laut #ESA kreisen mehr als eine Million gefährliche Trümmerteile im niedrigen #Erdorbit. Kritiker bezweifeln deshalb, dass eine unternehmenseigene Plattform ausreicht.
#PuertoRico leidet unter schwerer #Dürre.
Mitte September waren 37 % der Insel von extremer Dürre betroffen. Besonders betroffen ist das landwirtschaftlich wichtige Lajas Tal im Südwesten. Aufnahmen des #Copernicus Satelliten Sentinel 2 zeigen, wie sich die Landschaft zwischen September 2025 und September 2026 von grüner Vegetation zu überwiegend braunen Flächen verändert hat.
Just about now, the Perseverance rover – you know, Percy – is kicking off sol 2000. Happy sol-iversary! #space
Smile’s first ultraviolet footage shows auroral substorm
This is the first footage to be released from the ultraviolet camera (UVI) on the European-Chinese Smile mission. With UVI, Smile is now the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light, and is doing so for a record-breaking 45 hours at a time.
Credit: ESA & CAS/Smile/UVI
Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars
New research group by a dear former colleague now at the Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia: Cometary Life Cycle (CLIC) led by Rosita Kokotanekova …
… is looking for two PhD students and two Postdocs to study the physical evolution of comet nuclei and their links to other small body populations (TNOs, Centaurs, irregular moons, and dormant comets). The project is also closely linked to Comet Interceptor and Rubin Observatory’s LSST.
More at clic.kokotanekova.com/positions
Rosita adds: “I know Bulgaria is not a traditional top destination for young researchers, but this is a well-funded opportunity for independent, curious candidates open to the adventure.” Deadlines to apply to go on this adventure are September 30 for the PhD students, and October 31 for the Postdocs.
@www.esa.int brings us the ESA Space Environment Report 2026, opening with “Earth’s orbital environment is a finite resource. Some of its orbits are getting crowded and increasingly churning with deadly, fast-moving pieces of defunct satellites and rockets that threaten our future in space…”
A starry night, but in another galaxy ✨
Fly over the Magellanic Clouds, two galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, and discover a new stellar landscape — completely different from the one we see in our sky here on Earth.
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📹 ESO/M. R. Cioni et al., VMC Survey, P. Horálek, Zdeněk Bardon, N. Risinger
🎵 Mylonite – Composition 129
