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First gravitational wave observatory in space. 3 satellites flying in triangle formation connected by 2.5 million km laser beams. An ESA mission with international participation including from NASA. Launch in the 2030s.

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🛰️ LISA takes another step towards the future of GW astronomy! NASA has selected @l3harristech.bsky.social to design, assemble, and integrate the Engineering Test Unit, marking a key milestone towards the production of the mission’s flight hardware. 👀 Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/lis...

science.nasa.govNASA Advances LISA Mission Contributions With New Test Telescope - NASA ScienceNASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space
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The comic book premiered at The Center of Gravity’s Black Hole Week Copenhagen 2026, alongside a public exhibition of large-format comic posters in the city's historic Kongens Nytorv square.

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The Black Hole Comic Project brought together physicists from the Center of Gravity at the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen) and students from The Animation Workshop/VIA University College (Viborg) to turn black hole physics into original graphic stories.

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"I would love to workshop a way to portray them in an accessible and entertaining way, while also sticking to scientifically accurate information," said artist Wania Nowosielska, one of six students behind the project, when she applied to join.

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Happy birthday #GW150914! 11 years ago today, we caught our first gravitational wave, and founded a new type of astronomy A decade later, we now have hundreds of observations! 🔭🧪🎂

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Outside of LISA, Juan loves activities that combine adventure, endurance, and the outdoors, whether that's running, travelling, or exploring new places. He completed several marathons and enjoys snowboarding. #LISAMission #HumansofLISA

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✨How did you get interested in LISA or science? "I have always been fascinated by technology and by understanding how things work, even from a very young age. By chance, my professional path led me to work on the JUICE mission, and that is where I fell in love with scientific space missions.

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✨What are you most excited for about LISA? 🚀 "What excites me most is knowing that behind every future science date coming from LISA there will be decades of engineering effort from thousands of people who turned an extraordinary idea into reality.

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Feel like reminiscing about the #EuropeanSolarEclipse? We've got you covered. Check out our summary, featuring photos from the ground and from space, as well as a look-back at our in-person event in León and live broadcast from Javalambre 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

esa.intA look back at the 2026 total solar eclipseOn 12 August 2026, Europe witnessed the first total solar eclipse in over two decades. Millions of people were awed by the Moon completely covering the Sun's bright disc, briefly turning day into nigh...
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How did you get interested in LISA or science? In 2006-2007, I met Prof. Peter Bender during my Chadra Fellowship at the University of Colorado in Boulder: Peter had been among the first to propose a LISA-type mission, and his enthusiasm for the science that could be achieved by LISA was contagious.

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✨What are you most excited for about LISA? "LISA is a frontier mission: every initial detection of any source type will be a first of its kind. I am excited in anticipation of the entirely new and likely unexpected knowledge these data will provide us."

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The plan is to create a shared code that both collaborations can use to run a joint analysis, and to produce two papers: one on cosmological GW signals across different frequency bands, and one introducing the code to the community.

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Some gravitational-wave signals may be too complex for one detector to capture alone. This is where the new ET-LISA Synergy Project comes in. For the first time, the LISA and ET communities are officially joining forces to explore how space-based and ground-based detectors can work together.

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More than 40 researchers spanning Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia are now building shared analysis tools and developing joint methods to search for cosmological gravitational-wave signals, including possible echoes from the early Universe. 👀

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LISA Symposium Poster Session pictures are here! 🚀 Many of you were waiting for them, thanks for your patience and let’s all thank our amazing photographer Dennis Henry! 📸 More pictures coming soon! #LISASymposium2026 #LISAmission #nasa #esa

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✨ Ten years ago, the mission exceeded its pre-launch performance goals and reached sensitivity levels remarkably close to those required for the future LISA observatory. #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission

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Tracking water with LISA technology: GRACE-C, successor to GRACE & GRACE-FO, carries a laser ranging interferometer with LISA Pathfinder heritage. Sensing nm-scale shifts in satellite separation, it maps Earth's moving water - ice, groundwater, sea level. 🌍🌎🌏 #LISASymposium2026 #NASA

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Meet Taiji, a Chinese LISA-class observatory proposal: 3 spacecraft, heliocentric, ~3M km arms, mHz band, early-2030s launch. Together with LISA, it would have a ~100M km baseline for sharper localization. Demo stages funded; full mission awaits approval. #LISASymposium2026 #ICTP-AP #UCAS #CAS

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Halfway through #LISASymposium2026 and the energy's anything but halved! Brilliant talks and an engaged community. Let's chase them gravitational waves! Here's the crew and energy at midpoint - ready for round two! #lisasymposium2026

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LISA's Phase Measurement System: Quadrant Photo Receivers + Phasemeter tracking science, reference & test-mass channels and syncing clocks across 2.5 million kilometer, the backbone of Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) noise suppression. #nasa #LISASymposium2026 #esa #gravitationalwaves #lisamission

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Brilliant and fun overview of Gravitational Waves and LISA ... and explosions. Big explosions! Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe, explained the importance of LISA to a broad audience and answered questions from the audience. #lisasymposium2026

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LISA Symposium Public Lecture ... Listening to the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves and LISA ... by Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe. 6:30pm at Stamp Student Union Hoff Theater (Ground Floor) #lisasymposium2026 #lisamission #nasa #esa

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LISA will predict when massive black hole binaries will merge by detecting the gravitational waves created by the black holes orbiting each other. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰🌊) At #LISASymposium2026, John Ruan (Bishop's University) talks through the challenge of detecting their electromagnetic counterparts. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰💥)