Samarra, Iraq

Radarsat-2 entropy image and archaeological map over the octagonal city plan of part of ancient Samarra,…

PROBA Vegetation

Soon to be launched aboard the second VEGA flight from Kourou, PROBA V,  V for Vegetation,…

Light and dust in a nearby starburst galaxy

Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, this beautiful object is known as…

Black hole eats a super-Jupiter

Astronomers using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton space telescopes, NASA’s Swift and the MAXI (Monitor of All-sky…

Revealing the cosmic microwave background with Planck

This animation illustrates the painstaking detective work performed by cosmologists in the Planck Collaboration to extract…

Proba Family

This story explains what is the PROBA family and looks back at the previous PROBA missions.…

Looking over white darkness

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Alex Salam at Concordia station recalls his experience: "A privilege to live in…

Actin and vinculin in adherent monocyte

The internal structure of a human cell in simulated gravity taken on the International Space Station.…

Noctis Labyrinthus mosaic

This mosaic shows part of the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘Labyrinth of the Night’, on Mars.…

Masquerading as a double star

The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing…