🆕 Have astronomers detected the first ever extrasolar ‘glory’?
🌈 Potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ have been detected on a hellish planet outside our Solar System.
🤝 The team used data from
@ESA_CHEOPS
& other missions 👉
🪐 Are you an exoplanet or stellar researcher? Do you need space-based observations of your target? You are in luck!
📭 The CHEOPS Guest Observers Programme is open for your proposals as of today!
🔭 Submit to the 5th Announcement of Opportunity here:
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
On this occasion, we've caught up with three women in key positions
@ESA
, including our very own
@CGMundell
, Director of Science.
Discover Prof. Mundell's views on gender equality and learn more about our current Science Programme strategy,
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Moving to the next stage!
#PlatoMission
has passed its spacecraft critical design review on March 5th, meaning the spacecraft design and predicted performance meet the mission requirements 🥳
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Discovering an exoplanet is just the beginning.
@ESA_CHEOPS
is the first ever space mission designed to go after known exoplanets to unveil their precise sizes, masses and even atmospheres.
How will it do that? Discover here 👉
#ExoplanetExplorers
Interested in planets? 🪐🌎
Then you can't miss the Summer School Alpbach 2024, where you'll discover everything about giant
#planets
and their
#moons
!
Sixty
#students
will be selected for this ten-day learning opportunity held in the beautiful Austrian Alps, gaining a unique
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1/ A rare star system with 6
#exoplanets
has been unlocked with the help of our
@ESA_Cheops
mission
A special discovery because the planets’ orbital configuration shows that the system is largely unchanged since formation more than a billion years ago
👉
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Last days to apply for the ESA Student Internship Programme! 📅
Positions are available in engineering, science, IT, natural/social sciences, business, economics and administration services and you have until 𝟑𝟎 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 to send your
📢 The
#ESAResearchFellowships
in Space Science are now open for applications!
Join us for groundbreaking research in:
☀️ Heliophysics
🌍 Planetary Science
🌌 Astrophysics
⚛️ Fundamental Physics
Learn more 👉
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Data from
#ESACheops
revealed new details about an
#exoplanet
that shouldn’t exist! This shiniest planet known to date has the size of Neptune, has a dayside temp of 2000 °C and metallic clouds. Read more 👉
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What are mini-Neptunes and how do you find them is our vast universe? PhD Student Amy Tuson explains how the space telescopes
@NASA_TESS
and
@ESA_CHEOPS
allow her to unveil one of those mysterious exoplanets. 👇
#exoplanets
#UNIVERSE