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    Meet our new space explorers as they begin their journey to Mercury …via Amsterdam airport and Europe’s spaceport in Kourou
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    Space Science Image of the Week: Supercomputer simulations show how plasma flows around the spacecraft when BepiColombo fires its ion thrusters
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    Ahead of Earth Day, this edition features a Sentinel-2 image of a remote South Pacific island, which may look idyllic but is littered with tonnes of plastic
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    Sail across the Lagoon Nebula on the occasion of the Hubble Space Telescope's 28th anniversary
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