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ESA SCIENCE NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #04/2025 - 05 JUN 2025

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			Research Fellows in Space Science 2025 ESA has selected 10 new Fellows to pursue their own independent research in space science, starting in 2025. The 2025 Research Fellows in space science are Jo Ann Egger, Adam J. Finley, Zsofi Igo, Antonio La Marca, Benjamin Man, Cyril Mergny, Ioanna Psaradaki, Maria Edvige Ravasio, Giulia Roccetti, and Ciarán Rogers. Their research spans a broad range of exciting topics in the fields of heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. For example, they will investigate how supermassive black holes grow, research what happens on the surface of the icy Moons of Jupiter, model the atmospheres of exoplanets using observations of our own Earth as a reference, and study cosmic dust. The next call for the ESA Research Fellowship in Space Science is expected to open in August 2025. Read more

			"Euclid on Sky": a special issue by Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomy and Astrophysics published a special issue on Euclid results from Early Release Observations (ERO). They include 10 scientific papers as well as an overview of the processing pipeline and reference papers describing ESA Euclid space mission and its instruments. Read more

			LISA Science Team now complete Following the conclusion of the Announcement of Opportunity for LISA Complementary Scientists, the LISA Science Team (LST) has reached its full complement. We are pleased to welcome Catia Grimani (Space Weather) and Zoltán Haiman (Multi-messenger) as the newly selected Complementary Scientists. Their expertise will further strengthen the team as we shape the scientific future of LISA. With their addition, the composition of the LISA Science Team is now finalised. Read more

			First public release of the Solar Orbiter Field-of-View plots tool within the HelioPhysics Archive (HPA) On 7 April 2025, the HelioPhysics Archive (HPA) was publicly released for the first time. Its original content is a Field-of-View (FoV) plot tool to visualize the three Solar Orbiter telescopes with a FoV on the solar disk. They also include the reprojection of these FoVs from an Earth perspective (when possible), using NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory images. Otherwise, HPA points to the individual archives for now, but will progressively integrate natively the individual archives, starting with Solar Orbiter and the SMILE mission archive in the coming months. Read more

	Recent science highlights: From boring to bursting: a giant black hole awakens Hubble investigates a magnetar’s birthplace Webb spots clues of black hole at heart of nearby galaxy M8 Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter's aurora Titan forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of methane showers

	Upcoming ESA conferences:
	X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions & repeating nuclear transients *16-19 June 2025, ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain* Extreme-variability, often repeating phenomena associated with supermassive black holes including tidal disruption events, quasi-periodic eruptions, and changing-look AGN are observed with increasing frequency. This workshop will provide an environment where observers and theorists can together advance our understanding of the dynamic and complex environments which exist in galactic nuclei.

	European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2025 - ESA mission session *23-27 June 2025, Cork, Ireland* Multiple Symposia and Special sessions at the EAS 2025 meeting are explicitly dedicated to ESA missions, including: Symposium S1: Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: Anticipating the Leap in Understanding of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way with Gaia DR4 Symposium S2: XRISM and friends: the sharpest view of the X-ray Universe Special Session SS1: PLATO's Prospects in Exoplanet and Stellar Science Special Session SS11: JWST Data Pipeline Special Session SS14: Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast X-ray Transients in the SVOM and Einstein Probe Era

	European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2025 - Lunch Sessions LS1 and LS2: ESA Archives and ESA Science Programme *23-27 June 2025, Cork, Ireland* During two dedicated lunch sessions, ESA's Science Directorate will present an overview over its programme aimed at early career researches and update the European space science community on the services, tools, and assets offered by the ESA Space Science Archives. Lunch Session LS1: The ESA Science Programme Lunch Session LS2: The ESA Space Science Archives

	The 3rd international Machine Learning in Heliophysics hybrid conference *22-26 September 2025, ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain and online* The ML-Helio conference will focus on data science techniques to tackle fundamental problems in space weather forecasting, automatic event identification, feature detection and tracking, as well as combination of physics-based models with ML techniques. It will consist of lectures, complemented by hands-on tutorials on Python tools and data resources available to the heliophysics machine learning community.

	Opening a new era of the dynamic Universe: XRISM International Conference 2025 *20-24 October 2025, Kyoto, Japan* The first XRISM International Conference 2025 will be held on October 20-24, 2025, at “Kyoto Terrsa” in Kyoto, Japan: “Opening a new era of the Dynamic Universe”. This conference will highlight the scientific achievements from the first two years of XRISM and identify key questions we should address in the next observation cycles.