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RT @ESA_Webb: 🆕 Just in time for Halloween, a ghostly nebula lurks within sight of @Hubble_Space and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope This is the Cat’s Head Nebula 🐱 a star-forming region located approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth. It is named for its resemblance to a cat sitting with its back towards Earth, its ‘head’ turned to the side. 1/4

Last call for Mercury! 🚨 Today's your final chance to send Bepi & Mio a #WelcomeToMercury message and win a trip to ESA in Germany 👉 Entries close at 23:59 CEST. Don't count on the end of Daylight Saving Time to buy you more time 😜

Tick tock ⏰ Bepi and Mio are waiting to hear from you! There are only a few days left to send them a #WelcomeToMercury message and get the chance to win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Do not miss out 👇 @BepiColombo

RT @ESA_Webb: 🆕 Our ESA/Webb Picture of the Month sees stars brewing in a cosmic cauldron ⭐🔮 This is the star-forming region LHA 120-N 159 (N159), which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is what astronomers call a H II region: an area of space filled with ionised hydrogen gas. 1/3

On 9 December, two little explorers, Bepi and Mio, will part ways as they approach their final destination after a journey that started 8️⃣ years ago today 🥹 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message to cheer them up at this bitter sweet moment. Enter our @BepiColombo competition here 👉

@BepiColombo And as today we're celebrating eight years since @BepiColombo left for Mercury, we've asked the team to describe the mission in three words. Can you guess which word came up the most?

Next stop: Phobos & Deimos 🌑 MMX has successfully launched from Tanegashima, Japan. Its mission is to observe Mars’s mysterious moons, collect a sample from Phobos's surface and return it to Earth. 👉 @JAXA_en @NASA @CNES DLR @ESA

RT @esaspaceflight: A prolific decade in Mars orbit. @esa’s Trace Gas Orbiter slipped into orbit around Mars at 17:24 CEST on 19 October 2016. Here are some impressive facts and figures about our largest Mars explorer 👇

. @ESA_Euclid discovers its first comet ☄️ That's quite impressive for a #DarkUniverse detective 🕵️ meant to take deep, steady images of distant galaxies, not fast-moving tiny objects. Discover more about the comet 👉

Bepi and Mio are almost at Mercury, and they would love to hear from you 💌 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message for a chance to win a trip to ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Wish them well 👉 🫶 @BepiColombo

Fly over Africa with Juice 🧃 Destined for Jupiter, @ESA's Juice mission recently flew past Earth. Along the way, it pointed its science camera towards Africa 🌍 Curious what it saw? Explore this huge image strip here 👉

On 9 December, @BepiColombo officially arrives at Mercury and you can join us 🙌 Enter our #WelcomeToMercury competition and you could win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, where we will receive the signal from Bepi and Mio separating. All details are here 👉

Bepi and Mio are eagerily checking their inbox waiting to hear from you! 📭 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message and you could win a trip to ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, this December to experience BepiColombo arrive at Mercury. 💌 Submit your message here 👉

RT @esaoperations: What can nine hours in Earth’s shadow teach #Juice about how to explore #Jupiter? A lot! 🌑 Teams got to: 🔋 Test the spacecraft’s batteries 🔬 Do science in the dark 📷 Exercise autonomous navigation All while Earth helped steer Juice towards Jupiter. Read more 👉

🌍South Africa has the famous Table Mountain.. 🔴Mars has Amazonis Mensa, which is three times as high! And can you spot the ancient lava flows? Zoom into this slice of Red Planet shaped by wind and lava 👉

📣Launch announcement The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026 👉 1/4

MMX is led by @JAXA_en, in collaboration with @NASA, @CNES, DLR and @ESA ESA is providing MMX’s deep space communication equipment. After launch, ESA’s Estrack network of ground stations will support with sending commands and receiving data. 3/4

Follow the launch live in Japanese/English via @JAXA_en 👉 4/4

MMX is led by @JAXA_en, in collaboration with @NASA, @CNES, DLR and @ESA ESA is providing MMX’s deep space communication equipment. After launch, ESA’s Estrack network of ground stations will support with sending commands and receiving data. 3/4

Follow the launch live in Japanese/English via @JAXA_en 👉 4/4