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🌞🛰️Sun-watcher SOHO turns 30! 🎂 "SOHO has overcome nail-biting challenges to become one of the longest-operating space missions of all time" – Prof. @CGMundell, ESA Director of Science 👉esa.int/Science_Explor… 📷 SOHO (@esa & @NASA)







Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics — #ReviewArticle update published: Minna Palmroth, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf et al. Vlasov methods in space physics and astrophysics. #LivingRevComputAstrophys 11, 3 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s41115… #OpenAccess

Part of #CosmicVision, @ESA_Smile is a joint European–Chinese mission that will give us a global picture of the interaction between the Sun and Earth. By improving our understanding of geomagnetic storms, solar wind and space weather, Smile will help keep our technology & astronauts safe. 1/ #CM25






A #CosmicVision mission, @ESA_Plato will use its 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. Plato will revolutionise our understanding of how planets form, how planetary systems evolve & the potential habitability of these worlds. 1/ #CM25










🌌 Cosmic dust is spongier and fluffier than thought, says Prof Martin McCoustra and his international colleagues. These “fluffy little sponges” may be key to star & planet formation – and even the origins of life. Read more: shorturl.at/vSOGB #astrochemistry


Francisco Sánchez "The Rise of Astrophysics in Modern Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy" (Springer 2021). springer.com/gp/book/978303… English translation of "Soñando estrellas: así nació y se consolidó la astrofísica en España" (@IAC_Astrofisica 2019). Foreword by @DrBrianMay.