Herschel’s latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars are formed. The image is a new release of ‘OSHI’, ESA’s Online Showcase of Herschel Images.
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ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme’s booth ‘ESA Space Apps’ at this year’s Hanover Fair will present a number of impressive spin-offs and technology transfers, illustrating the huge untapped potential of advanced space technology for European non-space business.
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2010 April 27 
What created this strange sound in Earth’s Pacific Ocean?Pictured above is a visual representation of a loud and unusual sound, dubbed a Bloop, captured by deep sea microphones in 1997.In the above graph, time is shown on the horizontal axis, deep pitchis shown on the vertical axis, and brightness designates loudness. Although Bloops are some of the loudest sounds of any type ever recorded in Earth’s oceans, their origin remains unknown.The Bloop sound was placed as occurring several times off the southern coast of South America and was audible5,000 kilometers away. Although the sound has similarities to those vocalized by living organisms, not even a blue whale is large enough to croon this loud. The sounds point to the intriguing hypothesis that even larger life forms lurk in the unexplored darkness of Earth’s deep oceans.A less imagination-inspiring possibility, however, is that the sounds resulted from some sort of iceberg calving. No further Bloopshave been heard since 1997, although other loudunexplained sounds have been recorded.
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ESA PR 08-2010. Media representatives are cordially invited to celebrate the release of the first results from ESA’s Herschel infrared space telescope. The theme of the media day is: Revealing the Hidden Side of Star Formation.
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2010 April 23
Don’t panic, the Sun has not gone wild.But this wild-looking portrait of the nearest star to planet Earthwas made on March 30th by therecently launchedSolar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).Shown infalse-color, the composite view coversextreme ultraviolet wavelengths and traceshot plasma attemperatures approaching 1 millionkelvins.At full resolution, SDO image data is intended to exploresolar activity in unprecedented detail.In fact, SDO will send 1.5 terabytes of data back each day,equivalent to a daily download of about half a million MP3 songs.New SDO data releases include ahigh-resolution movieof the large, eruptive prominence seen along the solarlimb at the upper left.
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New images from ESA’s Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy.
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AFP – Astronomers around the world this weekend mark the 20th anniversary of the launching of the iconic Hubble, NASA’s first orbiting space telescope that has revolutionized human understanding of the universe.
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Now that the International Space Station is fully operational, the programme partners will gather in Berlin on 19–21 April to discuss the successes and potential of this unique international cooperation.
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ESA’s CryoSat-2 has delivered its first data just hours after ground controllers switched on the satellite’s sophisticated radar instrument for the first time. CryoSat-2 was launched on 8 April and has been performing exceptionally well during these critical first few days in orbit.
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