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esascience

  1. RT @Camilla_SDO: Welcome Venus @NASA/@esa SOHO's LASCO C3 instrument picks up Venus (says bye to Mercury) #VenusTransit owl.li/biz7r
  2. Happy Birthday, #Mars Express! ow.ly/1N8wHX More #MarsExpress at ow.ly/1N8wPw
  3. For our youngsters, we've prepared a little #Venus special. It's #Venustransit next week 5/6 June! ow.ly/bidP5
  4. Kids, are you ready for the transit of #Venus? ow.ly/bidqo #Venustransit
  5. Here comes Venus! ow.ly/bicY5 Latest #SOHO image shows #Venus coming in for the transit #VenusTransit
  6. RT @SPACEdotcom: Coming Soon! Partial Lunar Eclipse of June 4, 2012: Observer's Guide (Images) ctx.ly/r/44vm6 #skywatching #moon
  7. Astronomers use transits to search for planets outside our #SolarSystem - so called exoplanets. New blog: ow.ly/bi6ix #venustransit
  8. ESA's XMM-Newton reveals light 'echo' around supermassive #blackhole ow.ly/bgUQx #Xray #science
  9. RT @HUBBLE_space: Only a few hours left to enter! Hubble's Hidden Treasures competitions close at midnight CEST today bit.ly/Jwhs4i
  10. Congrats to all winners! Students from across Europe selected at @ESA’s ‘Explore the high-energy Universe’ competition ow.ly/bgIC4
  11. #Venus: Earth’s twin planet? Only at first glance, close up, they're worlds of extremes. Comparison of 2 worlds apart ow.ly/bgATE
  12. Measuring the size of the #SolarSystem III: Guest blogger P. Bond explains principle of Parallax to calculate distances ow.ly/bgzUi
  13. Measuring the size of the #SolarSystem II – the ‘black drop’ problem. By guest blogger Peter Bond ow.ly/bgzRl
  14. Measuring the size of the #SolarSystem – transits through the ages. By guest blogger Peter Bond ow.ly/bgzMv #Venustransit
  15. It’s noctilucent cloud season - rare and beautiful “night-shining” clouds. Good chance next 3 months! ow.ly/bgxiW
  16. Countdown for upcoming solar eclipses through 2017. 365daysofastronomy.org Podcast: ow.ly/bgwNE
  17. From a different perspective: Yesterday's @APOD looks back at eclipsed #Earth during annular #solar #eclipse on 21 May: ow.ly/bgpUd
  18. ESA will be streaming #Venustransit from Svalbard, Norway and Canberra, Australia. Follow Venus Transit Monitor at ow.ly/bgpx7
  19. Follow #Venustransit on 5/6 June and help the worldwide community to measure #Sun’s distance with this #App ow.ly/bgpnB
  20. Fingers X'ed for clear skies during #Venustransit. Some methods to observe the event: ow.ly/bgoUi NEVER look at Sun with naked eye!