on my webpage! I am an experienced spacecraft analyst at the European Space Operations Centre via Telespazio Germany GmbH. Currently, I am the analyst for the X-ray astronomy mission XMM-Newton, but have worked as an analyst for almost all Earth Explorer spacecrafts previously. In the past I have worked as an astrophysicist studing accreting neutron stars and cosmological neutrino sources. For more details please have a look at the “About me” menu.
ESA Space Science News
Webb studies how a planet survived the death of its star
01/07/2026
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to watch the Jupiter-sized exoplanet WD 1856 b transit its host star, measuring the planet’s mass and temperature and even detecting its atmosphere.They found that the planet is significantly warmer than expected and determined how it most likely reached its very tight orbit around the star, a white dwarf. The results are our first window into the future of planets like Jupiter after the death of the Sun, billions of years into the future.
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Thousands of planets are hidden in this photo
01/07/2026
Millions of stars.
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Solar eclipse: myth vs fact
26/06/2026
What really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature's most spectacular phenomena.
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Smile reaches science orbit
25/06/2026
The European-Chinese Smile mission reached its designated science orbit on 20 June 2026.
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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart
24/06/2026
This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light.
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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart
24/06/2026
End of the blue glow: BepiColombo turns off solar electric propulsion for Mercury arrival
24/06/2026
At 15:24 CEST on 15 June 2026, a faint blue glow in space was switched off for the last time. After powering BepiColombo's eight-year journey across the inner Solar System, the spacecraft's solar electric propulsion (SEP) system completed its final thrust arc, marking the end of BepiColombo’s long cruise phase and the beginning of its arrival at Mercury.
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Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS
22/06/2026
The third identified interstellar comet in human history has a surprising chemical makeup, raising questions as to how common, or unusual, conditions in our own Solar System may be.
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Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight
17/06/2026
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured part of Mars’s Mamers Valles: a fascinating valley system speckled with brief, tornado-like whirlwinds known as dust devils.
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How Europe studies the Sun
05/06/2026
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Webb unveils young stars across every stage of formation
05/06/2026
For this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month we return to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb.
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Webb sniffs methane from interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
01/06/2026
Webb's MIRI image of the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS in three different light wavelengths
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Smile: cleanroom to space
01/06/2026
Smile successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 19 May 2026.
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Journey to the centre of a galaxy cluster
29/05/2026
The focus of today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years.
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Inspector Smile, chapter 3: the countdown begins
18/05/2026
A ship sails smoothly into harbour.
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