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18.02.2022 Dust donut hides supermassive black hole : A glowing donut-shaped disk of dust and gas hides a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy "Messier 77" (M77).
17.02.2022 New NASA mission with Graz participation : With Helioswarm, the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Space Institute wants to uncover the secret of the solar wind.
17.02.2022 Expert group to discuss question of European access to space : The discussion about independent access to space for Europe has taken a step forward.
16.02.2022 What's next for Europe in space? Summit seeks answers : Unlike other space nations, Europe cannot put astronauts into space itself - A space summit could now get things moving.
15.02.2022 Artificial intelligence to improve forecast for solar storms : When a solar storm hits the Earth, it can have serious consequences for communication and energy supply systems.
14.02.2022 26 Austrians still in the ESA astronaut race : Insgesamt 466 Österreicherinnen und Österreicher haben im vergangenen Jahr eine Bewerbung zum Astronauten bei der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation ESA eingereicht.
14.02.2022 Space telescope James Webb sent first photo from space : The new James Webb space telescope has sent the first image from its deployment site in deep space to Earth.
10.02.2022 500th satellite with thermal protection from Austria : Today, Thursday, another 34 small internet satellites of the British-Indian company OneWeb are launched into space. This brings to more than 500 the number of satellites with thermal protection from Austria in space.
01.02.2022 Vienna-based Communications Agency Reveals ESA Animation : The European Centre for Space Law is entering a new era - with the help of a creative agency from Austria.
31.01.2022 Technology from Austria for European Vega rocket : In 2026, the new small European rocket Vega-E is to be launched into space.
25.01.2022 Space telescope James Webb reached target in space : The James Webb space telescope has arrived at its destination in space 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.
19.01.2022 Earth Observation, European Spacecraft & Astronaut Selection : At the ESA Director General's annual press conference, Aschbacher highlighted ESAs ambitions, brought a focus on positive developments - and also made clear that Europe needs to do better in international comparison.
17.01.2022 Star explosions caused local bubble to form around sun : Astronomers from the University of Vienna, together with an international team, have now reconstructed the evolutionary history of our galactic neighbourhood in the scientific journal "Nature" and shown how a chain of stellar explosions ("supernovae") that began 14 million years ago led to the formation of this so-called "local bubble".
10.01.2022 Last wing of James Webb space telescope unfolded : Launched at Christmas, the James Webb Space Telescope has completed its two-week deployment phase with the unfolding of a final mirror plate and will soon be ready to explore the universe.
06.01.2022 Europe's Mars mission with technology from Austria : Outlook for the coming space year 2022: RUAG Space Austria technology for Europe's Mars mission and for European weather satellites.
06.01.2022 Exoplanet KELT-9b: Traces of oxygen detected : An international team, including the Institute for Space Research (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz, has detected oxygen atoms in the glowing hot atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The researchers' results were presented in the journal Nature Astronomy.
05.01.2022 Space Year 2022 - After Mars, now the Moon, Jupiter and asteroids : While Mars was the focus of space activities with numerous missions in the year that is coming to an end, there will be many smaller and larger goals next year.
05.01.2022 Solar shield of James Webb space telescope fully deployed : The James Webb space telescope, launched at Christmas, has fully deployed its giant solar shield in an important and complicated stage.
25.12.2021 170 vagrant planets discovered in near-sun star factory : While observing a star-forming region near the Sun, an international team of astronomers with participation from Austria has discovered the largest collection of vagabonding planets to date.
22.12.2021 Researchers and laymen found huge common envelope around double star : Following a tip-off from hobby researchers, a team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck has succeeded in providing the first evidence of a huge, fully developed common envelope around a binary star system.
19.12.2021 New James Webb space telescope launches with Austro technology : With the "James Webb Space Telescope" (JWST), after several launch delays, the largest and most powerful telescope ever put into space is to set off "no earlier than 24 December".