Crab Pulsar Wind NebulaCredits: #NASA, CXC, SAO, F. D. Seward,W. H. Tucker, R. A. Fesen#nature #space #astrophotography

Exciting milestone for astronomy: construction of CTAO-South has kicked off The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory will be the world’s largest and most powerful gamma-ray observatory. It will observe the most energetic phenomena in the Universe from two sites: CTAO-South at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and CTAO-North in the Canary Islands.Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2521/Crash course on the CTAO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRazLrvUNQ#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

The Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt today ️This room sees launches, landings, mission sims, & more, & has been the scene of some of the greatest days in ESA’s history (& mine).The spacecraft the MCR talks to are in, err, space ‍️, but several have siblings at ESOC, engineering models with the same electronics & software, used to test procedures before uplinking to the real thing.A few pictures below #Space #SpaceScience #Photography