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Space News

  • Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir

    Vivid green blooms form, drift, and fade in Hartbeespoortdam reservoir over the course of a year.

  • Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making

    A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when […]

  • NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility

    NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, and four one-year option periods that if exercised […]

  • Webb reveals a sample of galaxies with unusual features, nicknamed 'Platypus'

    After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features.

  • Webb finds early-universe analog's unexpected talent for making dust

    Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way.

Space Industry Jobs

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    Instrumentation Alignment and Verification Engineer

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €5,000 - €10,000 per month

    The Systems Engineering Department comprises a team of 30 engineers, distributed over 3 groups. The department provides Systems Engineering expertise to ESO's projects, in particular for the development of the Extremely Large Telescope and its sub-systems and for the design and development of advanced optical and...

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    Director of Programmes

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €10,000 - €15,000 per month

    Reporting directly to the Director General, the Director of Programmes leads ESO's major programmes and oversees the Organisation's programmatic framework. The Director of Programmes is responsible for programme planning and control, for providing project-management capabilities across ESO, and for guiding the design...

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    Astronomer / VLTI Project Scientist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €5,000 - €10,000 per month

    The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is an ESO flagship infrastructure and facility combining the light from the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes and the four associated movable Auxiliary Telescopes. Its development recently included the GRAVITY and MATISSE instruments, and the planned final commissioning...

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    ELT Programme Scientist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €7,500 - €11,000 per month

    The ELT Programme Scientist provides the overall scientific leadership for the ELT and its suite of instruments. The role encompasses all scientific aspects of the ELT Construction Programme, covering the telescope itself, and the development of its instruments under the ESO Instrumentation Programme. A key...

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    Senior Photonics Design Engineer

    MBRYONICS · Galway, G, Ireland

    MBRYONICS is at the forefront of free space optical communications. Our product portfolio covers a wide range of emerging technologies from photonic integrated circuits to advanced optical systems and embedded software solutions. Our optical communications systems are integrated and deployed in satellite...