MISSION NEWS AS OF TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2016

+ LISA PATHFINDER'S PIONEERING MISSION CONTINUES
On 7 December, LISA Pathfinder started the extended phase of its mission, an additional six months during which scientists and engineers will push the experiment to its limits in preparation for ESA's future space observatory of gravitational waves.
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+ SPINNING BLACK HOLE SWALLOWING STAR EXPLAINS SUPERLUMINOUS EVENT [HEIC1622]
An extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, and dubbed ASASSN-15lh, was thought to be the brightest supernova ever seen. But new observations from several observatories, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have now cast doubt on this classification.
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ROSETTA BLOG UPDATES

+ REFLECTIONS
Some ten weeks have passed since Rosetta ended its mission on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, and it is time for a little reflection here on the Rosetta blog...
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