Just a few moments ago, the Rosetta team at ESA's ESOC mission control begin to see the final commands (sent earlier) being processed on board
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Andreas Mogensen, Denmark's first astronaut in space, just uploaded this to his FB. The Milky rising below our planet. This is his last day on the ISS before he will return back to Earth.
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Hillary cheated on Bill
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Eredin and Imlerith from The Witcher 3 at Paris Games Week
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Mars, yesterday. As seen by the webcam on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter on 16 October, as another mission, ExoMars, is about to reach the Red Planet...
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Asparagus wrapped in bacon, mini meatloaf and sautered asparagus in garlic and soy sauce. [OC]
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The Flying Saucer protoplanetary disc
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Seen on a bus in Denmark.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the ancient Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating as it approaches the Sun. This observation represents one of the sharpest views of an icy comet breaking apart.
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Rosetta Mission #CometLanding site just coming into view in lower left! Image taken 04:17 CEST with OSIRIS wide-angle camera at 15.5 km from the comet. This is where Rosetta will ride through space for the next many thousand years
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Part of the Anti-Atlas mountains bordering the Sahara Desert in western Algeria is pictured in this Sentinel-2A satellite image. The circle at the centre is the Ouarkziz crater. Some 3.5 km across, the crater was created when a meteor hit Earth less than
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Belgium is sending its aircraft carrier to help in the fight against ISIS.
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A cancer cell being hit by radiation. Shown through a microscope.
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What do you see?
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The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved
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Gingers
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Today is International Orangutan Day
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Nearing the end of the second marathon to be run in space. 5 km to go!
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the ancient Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating as it approaches the Sun. This observation represents one of the sharpest views of an icy comet breaking apart.
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Joe Biden: inappropriate
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The flattened peak of Cerro Armazones, the future home of the European Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT.
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