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#OnThisDay in 2016, @astro_tim & I took a stroll in space to repair the @Space_Station. A truly epic day, with an eventful ending as Tim's spacesuit helmet began taking in […]

Are you an engineering student? Here's your chance to learn about #spacedebris and how this issue affects future sustainable use of space at the ESA Academy's 1st Space Debris Training […]

Simulating #space plasma heating with supercomputers… and in your cup of #coffee?! ☕️ Find out how in @ESAscience IOW: https://t.co/s96slOIZNi pic.twitter.com/vz80OS0oVP — ESA (@esa) January 15, 2018

By starlight this eerie visage shines in the dark, a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression that […]

Sounds from another world! Listen as our Huygens probe descends to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan to land #OTD 14 Jan 2005 https://t.co/60b4POij6X pic.twitter.com/0QS4aXU07a — ESA (@esa) January 14, […]

On this #SaturnSaturday, we remember @ESA’s Huygens probe. Thirteen years ago tomorrow, it made the first-ever landing on a world of the outer solar system when it descended to the […]

THE first colour view of the surface of Titan, taken #OTD in 2005, 14 January, by #ESA's #Huygens probe. See https://t.co/6HF5rdQifr pic.twitter.com/ok4FwOXNVt — ESA space history (@ESA_History) January 14, 2018

#OTD 14 January 2005, our #Huygens probe landed near the Xanadu region on Saturn's moon #Titan; the only landing accomplished in the outer Solar System & also the 1st landing […]

#OTD 14 January 2005, waiting for #Huygens. PI for the HASI instrument Marcello Fulchignoni (@Obs_Paris) & Francesca Ferri (@UPadua) wait anxiously before the signal was received at #ESOC confirming #Huygens […]