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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 14h

Wishing you all the best for a successful launch for this incredible mission. Honoured that @science.esa.int is part of it. Step by step …

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 21/09/2026

Pokémon is heading to space with ESA. 🚀⚡ For #WorldSpaceWeek2026, Pokémon and ESA are teaming up to inspire the next generation of explorers. A special Pikachu plush has even travelled to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot! (Credits: ESA/NASA S. Adenot)

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/09/2026

Together, the stacked spacecraft travelled nine billion km, did 22 loops around the Sun and performed nine planetary flybys. MTM's propulsion system is dependent on Bepi's computer control, so after today, MTM will float around the Sun indefinitely. 🔭 🧪 #planetsci 2/3

BepiColombo appears to ‘hug’ Mercury in this image taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 19 June 2023 as the spacecraft sped by for its third of three gravity assist manoeuvres at the planet. The back of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter’s high-gain antenna and part of the spacecraft’s body is visible in front of Mercury.

Collage of images captured by BepiColombo’s monitoring camera during the Venus flyby on 15 October 2020. Two rows of four images each show parts of the BepiColombo spacecraft with planet Venus in the background.

A view of Earth captured by one of the MCAM selfie cameras on board BepiColombo, as the spacecraft zoomed past the planet during its first and only Earth flyby on 10 April 2020.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/09/2026

Mission accomplished, MTM! 🫡 Thanks for getting us this far!

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is good news! BepiColombo is a cool mission to orbit Mercury and will be there in less than three months. It flew there as two connected spacecraft, and they just separated successfully! www.science.esa.int/bepicolombo

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 03/09/2026

An incredible achievement and critical milestone.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 27/08/2026

BepiColombo is almost arriving at Mercury... but first, 👋 MPO and Mio must say farewell to their 'trusty engine' MTM (Mercury Transfer Module) 📺Watch live with us on 3 September, 13:45 CEST 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21/08/2026

📺 And join us for an online media briefing on 31 August 2026 about BepiColombo’s Mercury arrival phase. Register by 15:00 CEST on 29 August. More details 👉https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Online_media_briefing_-_BepiColombo_s_next_milestone_towards_Mercury 🔭 🧪

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21/08/2026

Want to know more about BepiColombo’s arrival at Mercury? 🖼️Check out our selection of revamped infographics: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

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BepiColombo arrival media kit

Download this media kit to learn more about the arrival at Mercury of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission, the spacecraft's eight year journey, and the science goals of the mission.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 14/08/2026

📹 video credit: Lori Aderin-Pocock

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 14/08/2026

From the team that brought you the live eclipse broadcast from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, thank you for joining us! Missed the broadcast? Watch it here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx... #EuropeanSolarEclipse

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 13/08/2026

Missed our live broadcast of last night’s total Solar eclipse from #JavalambreObservatory ? Worry not: it’s all here for you to enjoy : m.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx... Thanks to our @esa.int teams, expert speakers, observatory staff and the amazing Dame Dr Maggie Aderin. What an experience !

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Total solar eclipse 2026: Coming to Europe (Official ESA broadcast)

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 13/08/2026

And that’s a wrap! Thanks to all our amazing teams who briught the eclipse to you in Leon, Palencia and to millions of you online. I hope you enjoyed the experience of this incredible cosmic phenomenon as much as we did!

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 11/08/2026

🌑 A total solar eclipse isn't just a beautiful sight, it's an occasion to learn more about the Universe. Our Director of Science, Professor @cmundell.esa.int gives us a hint why below 👇 Full story live at 19:30 CEST tomorrow, 12 August 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDx... #EuropeanSolarEclipse 🔭

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 10/08/2026

Faltan 2 días para vivir en compañía el #Eclipse2026 en León. Lugar: Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones Horario: 12 de agosto de 10-14 y de 17:30 hasta final de evento Evento gratuito y sin inscripción Todos los detalles 👇 www.esa.int/Space_in_Mem...

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Vive el eclipse solar total con la ESA en León

Muy pocas generaciones han tenido la oportunidad de vivir un eclipse solar total. El próximo 12 de agosto, millones de personas en toda Europa mirarán al cielo para contemplar uno de los fenómenos…

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 08/08/2026

⚠️ Safety first ⚠️ If you're getting ready to observe the total solar eclipse on 12 August, please follow safety rules: 🚨 use only certified eclipse glasses (ISO 12312-2) 🚨 do not look through devices without a special solar filter Check out the safety list below! 🔭🧪#EuropeanSolarEclipse

A screenshot from our edu kit presenting safety rules for observing the total solar eclipse. You can access the list at pages 7 and 8 from the kit. Download PDF at https://cesar.esa.int/download.php?Id=4144&N=77047198

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/08/2026

What makes the 12 August #EuropeanSolarEclipse special? For a start, the Iberian Peninsula hasn't seen a total solar eclipse since 1912❗ Here are 7 more reasons not to miss it 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2… 🔭 🧪

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8 things to know about this year’s solar eclipse

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/08/2026

By comparing those forecasts with reality, scientists look to improve the models used to understand the Sun's magnetic environment and forecast space weather. @operations.esa.int has more details here 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety... 2/2

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Virtual totality ahead of the solar eclipse

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and part of northeastern Portugal. This rare event will provide a unique opportunity to st...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/08/2026

Virtual totality? ☀️ Ahead of the 12 August eclipse, KU Leuven researchers are using computer simulations and the latest solar observations from missions such as Solar Orbiter and Proba-3 to predict what the solar corona will look like. 1/2 🔭 🧪

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 04/08/2026

12 August: for over one minute, day turns to night 🌑 thanks to a total solar eclipse. But will it be visible from your place? Check out these maps to find out. If you're close to the path of totality, but not within it, it is totally worth the travel! 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Map of Earth shown as a globe, with the focus on its northern hemisphere. A red, C-shaped arc marked 'total eclipse' reaches from northeast Russia, past the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland and the Iberian Peninsula. An orange oval surrounds this arc, marked 'partial eclipse', covering most of Europe, Canada and parts of the USA, the western edge of Africa and the northeastern corner of Russia.

Spain and Canary Islands map showing total solar eclipse path on 12 Aug 2026 with totality band and darkness contours

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 23/07/2026

Doing your research on the #SolarEclipses coming to Europe in 2026, 2027 and 2028? We have materials that could help www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Sets/202… Follow www.esa.int/solareclipse for updates. 🔭 🧪 ☀️ #EduSky #EuropeanSolarEclipse

A map of the Iberian Peninsula, showing where three solar eclipses will cross Spain and Portugal. A purple band marked ‘Total solar eclipse 12 August 2026’ curves from Spain's northwest to central east. An orange band marked ‘Total solar eclipse 2 August 2027’ covers Spain's southern tip and northern Africa. A green band marked ‘Annular solar eclipse 26 January 2028’ crosses the peninsula diagonally from southern Portugal to northeastern Spain.

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ESA in italiano @ita.esa.int · 17/07/2026

La registrazione è disponibile a questo link 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... Tra i relatori, il nostro Direttore Scientifico @science.esa.int Prof.ssa @cmundell.esa.int e altri esperti dell'ESA. 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse @esa.int

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Replay of the online media briefing on the total solar eclipse

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 16/07/2026

Missed our total solar eclipse media briefing or couldn't attend? Watch the recording here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... featuring our Director of Science, Prof. @cmundell.esa.int , and other ESA experts. 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

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Replay of the online media briefing on the total solar eclipse

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SPIE @spie.org · 10/07/2026

For the 2027 #SPIE Society Awards, we're introducing a new award! 🏆💡 ✨ The SPIE Award for Excellence in Leadership ✨ celebrates leaders whose vision, influence, and collaborative approach have strengthened the global optics and #photonics community. Read the award criteria: bit.ly/4g8aYkX

Banner promoting SPIE Awards showing Jess Wade speaking at a podium on a stage with blue and gold curtains, holding an award. Text reads: “SPIE Awards. Nominate a colleague. Accepting Society Award nominations through 31 July 2026.”

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SPIE @spie.org · 08/07/2026

“Europe decided, decades ago, that some questions are too big for any one nation—and too important to leave unanswered.” #SPIEastro @esa.int @science.esa.int @cmundell.esa.int

Large screen shows text that reads: REACH FOR THE SKIES WITH THE ESA SCIENCE PROGRAMME.

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SPIE @spie.org · 08/07/2026

Amaze amaze amaze 🤩 Carole Mundell, Director of Science at the @esa.int, delivers an inspiring presentation on the ESA portfolio, from the exoplanet fleet to upcoming missions to #Venus, #Jupiter, and #Mercury. 🔭 #SPIEastro @cmundell.esa.int

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 07/07/2026

A cosmic construction project 🏗️ Webb has observed a galaxy cluster in the making. Two sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass, are actively merging in this messy view. Several details come to light when looking closer 👉 esawebb.org/images/potm2... 🔭 🧪

A galaxy cluster in deep space. It is filled with elliptical galaxies: small, bright white glowing ovals. The two largest elliptical galaxies, left and right of center, are bright cores that radiate light. Unrelated, distant galaxies are scattered around as red smudges and dots.Many of these are stretched out into red arcs and lines by the galaxy cluster’s strong gravity, creating multiple images in places. Numerous spiral galaxies and bright stars appear in the foreground. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Fujimoto

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/07/2026

Written in its stars ✨ On its 4th science anniversary, Webb has turned its gaze towards Centaurus A. Thanks to its high resolution we can now study the galaxy star by star, reconstructing when different events in its history happened 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

$A horizontal image of the galaxy Centaurus A stretches across a black background filled with thousands of tiny purple, pink, and white points of light. The galaxy is brightest at its centre, where a brilliant white and pale pink glow radiates outward. Eight diffraction spikes extend from the central glow. Delicate loops and wispy ribbons of pink and lavender arc above and below the centre of the image in the shape of an ‘S’. A band of gray and white dust in the shape of a parallelogram cuts across the middle of the galaxy. Mottled patches and bright knots are scattered throughout the dusty band. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft, cloud-like plumes with feathery textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Against the surrounding darkness, a few bright foreground stars shine with Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes, while countless fainter stars create a speckled backdrop. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), M. Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI)$

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#OTD 3 July 2003, ESA's Mars Express was pointed backwards to see a view of the Earth-Moon system from 8 million km while on its way to Mars. This was the first image of planetary objects taken by its High Resolution Stereo Camera 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @cmundell.esa.int

A blue crescent Earth on the left, with a tiny silver grey crescent Moon on the right, separated by a black void. The image was built by combining a super resolution black-and-white snapshot image of Earth and the Moon taken by the Mars Express HRSC camera with colour information obtained by the blue, green and red sensors of the instrument.

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 03/07/2026

El anuncio de la tripulación de Artemis III, el récord de Ariane 6, importantes novedades científicas y mucho más. 👀 Ponte al día con las principales noticias de junio de 2026.🗞️

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 25/06/2026

Hoy, en el IX New Space Atlantic Summit en Lisboa, la directora de @science.esa.int @cmundell.esa.int destacó cómo la innovación impulsa el crecimiento y genera más inversión en el espacio, mientras la ESA trabaja con sus Estados miembros para desarrollar sus ambiciones científicas y tecnológicas.

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#OTD 1 July 2004 (30 June US time), the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn, the first to do so. This is the first image of the planet's rings received after orbit insertion. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @carolynporco.bsky.social @cmundell.esa.int @science.esa.int

After becoming the first spacecraft to enter orbit around Saturn, Cassini-Huygens sent back a photograph of a portion of the planet's rings. It was taken by the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera and shows the dark, unlit side of the rings.

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 27/06/2026

¡Inspector Smile ya está en su órbita científica! 😊 El equipo europeo y chino inicia ahora una campaña de dos meses para la puesta en servicio de la nave, que incluye encender y comprobar todo su conjunto de instrumentos científicos. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int

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Smile reaches science orbit

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Eamonn Kerins @eamonnkerins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wild to see the detail revealed by the #Euclid #Galactic Bulge Survey. Right side of the ESASKY image below shows a zoomed in edge of the EGBS area on the right, with adjoining Gaia DR3 data to the left. EGBS gives HST WFC3 level detail, but over an area 2000 larger! @eucliduk.bsky.social 🧪🔭

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 21/06/2026

#PorSiTeLoPerdiste - En nuestra última imagen de Mars Express se esconden más de 30 dust devils (remolinos de polvo). ¿Cuántos puedes encontrar? 🧐 Descubre la respuesta y aprende más sobre estos torbellinos con forma de tornado aquí 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Dozens of dust devils hidden in plain sight

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured part of Mars’s Mamers Valles: a fascinating valley system speckled with brief, tornado-like whirlwinds known as dust devils.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 19/06/2026

🗞️The latest edition of the ESA Science Newsletter is out! Learn about: 🔴 Our Directorate of Science Virtual Town Hall 🔴 Arrakihs' adoption & extension of 13 space science missions 🔴 A Venus GIS database & more Access the edition & subscribe 👉 cosmos.esa.int/web/scinews 🔭 ☄️

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Euclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

While writing about data releases: #ESAEuclid's major Data Release 1 will start with 1900 deg² of calibrated images, spectra, and catalogues in November 2026 ("DR1-Foundation"), adding higher-level #cosmology data products in mid-2027. www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/d... #ESA #Euclid #astronomy

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DR1 Timeline - Euclid - Cosmos

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ESA en español @es.esa.int · 18/06/2026

Únete a la directora de Ciencia de la ESA, Prof. @cmundell.esa.int el 24 de junio a las 14:00 CEST para conocer las últimas novedades del Programa Científico, sus prioridades futuras, las oportunidades de participación para la comunidad y participar en una sesión de preguntas y respuestas en directo

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our ESA Director of Science @cmundell.esa.int & Head of Science Engagement @gaitee.bsky.social will be hosting a @science.esa.int Town Hall on June 24th @ 14:00 CEST. All members of the scientific community are invited to attend, details here! 🔭🚀 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/dsci_tow...

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Home - DSCI TownHall Meeting - Cosmos

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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Upgraded Ariane 6 launches Amazon Leo satellites An Ariane 6 with upgraded solid rocket boosters successfully launched three dozen Amazon Leo satellites June 17 as ESA weighs options for increasing the vehicle’s launch rate....

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Upgraded Ariane 6 launches Amazon Leo satellites

An Ariane 6 with upgraded solid rocket boosters successfully launched three dozen Amazon Leo satellites June 17 as ESA weighs options for increasing the vehicle’s launch rate.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 17/06/2026

Registrations open for the third Science Directorate Town Hall Join ESA Director of Science, Prof. @cmundell.esa.int on 24 June from 14:00 CEST for updates on the Science Programme, future priorities, opportunities for community engagement and a live Q&A. 🧪 ☄️ 1/2

Promotional image reading Director of Science Town Hall, 24 June 14:00–16:00 CEST. In the background, a blue-white, circular spiral galaxy is shown on a colourful starry background.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/06/2026

They were recognised for their work uncovering fossil evidence proving that the Milky Way galaxy grew by engulfing smaller neighbouring galaxies. Data from ESA's Gaia mission played a crucial role. Here's what else Gaia uncovered about our Milky Way 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 2/2

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Gaia’s decade of discoveries: unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/06/2026

Congratulations to the laureates of the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics! 🔴 Vasily Belokurov, University of Cambridge, UK 🔴 Amina Helmi, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 🔴 Rodrigo Ibata, University of Strasbourg, France kavli-prize.vercel.app/prizes/astro... 🔭 🧪 1/2

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2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Overview over the 2026 Kavli Prize in astrophysics

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/06/2026

“By uncovering hard-to-see galaxy haloes, [Arrakihs] will reveal new details of how galaxies form and whether the Milky Way galaxy is unique. Its rapid development showcases the flexibility and breadth of ESA’s Science Programme,” says @cmundell.esa.int, ESA’s Director of Science. 🔭 🧪 2/3

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