Test engineer Laurence Levan is bathed in an intense green glow from powerful ultraviolet lamps simulating…
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ATV-4 thruster inspection
A technician checks one of ATV Albert Einstein's thrusters before the space ferry is moved for…
ATV-4 complete at CSG
ATV Alebert Einstein assembled and ready to continue preparations for launch. Next stop is fuelling at Europe's…
ATV-4 transfer for launch preparations
ATV Albert Einstein ready to be moved to the fuelling room at Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana.…
ATV-4 moved for fuelling
ATV-4 preparations continue with Albert Einstein making its way for fuelling at Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French…
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…