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Week in images: 25 - 29 October 2021

Géraldine Naja took up duty as Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement (D/CIP), based at ESA Headquarters in Paris, on 1 November 2021.

Astronomy is the study of the sun, moon, stars, planets and other objects and phenomena in space. It has a long, rich history.

Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the "telescope that ate astronomy."

As space travel for recreational purposes is becoming a very real possibility, there could come a time when we are travelling to other planets for holidays, or perhaps even to live.

Project Cambria is the new VR headset revealed at Facebook Connect, and it's coming next year.

NASA has a plan that includes telescope partnerships and a brand-new spacecraft mission launching this year.

The weird motions of planet Earth and its sun will be a fun sight for astronauts at the south pole of the moon, a NASA video shows.

The coldest place in the universe is a teeth-chattering –459.67 degrees Fahrenheit: over three times icier than the chilliest location on Earth.

The moonless evenings this week offer three bright planets and deep-sky riches as deep as you can go. Meanwhile, the waning crescent Moon meets Mercury and Spica low in bright dawn.

Glasgow, host of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26), is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Today, ESA and NASA have publicly released the first globally-harmonised assessment of above ground biomass – information that is vital for managing global climate change. The Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) provides seamless access to above ground biomass information from both NASA and ESA Earth observation data. The revolutionary open-science tool is now fully operational and accessible online.

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron was one of the first women to serve as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. Now she’s ready to apply her experience under the waves to a flight above the atmosphere on the International Space Station.

Research in space could help humanity to tackle our big plastic problem here on Earth.

Venus is the first planet you'll spot these days — maybe even before sunset, if you know where to look in the south-southwest sky.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft emerges from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing facility in July, during preparations before Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now

Boeing said Wednesday it will take on a $185 million charge in its third quarter earnings to pay for the latest setback on the Starliner crew capsule, bringing the company’s out-of-pocket costs on the troubled program to $595 million since 2019.

Human-made interference, not extraterrestrial technology, is responsible for the first candidate "signal of interest" detected by the project Breakthrough Listen.



'Star Trek: Prodigy' warps onto Paramount+ tonight and takes the franchise where no one has taken it before.

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