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Sophie Adenot exercising on the CEVIS bike
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, currently on the International Space Station for the εpsilon mission, exercises on the CEVIS bike just a few days…
ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels
A dark blue van stands at the ready in front of a 25-metre-wide antenna, framed by…
ESA – Uranus rotation in timelapse
This timelapse shows a full rotation of Uranus captured by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Thanks to its orbit at L2, Webb was able to observe the…
ESA – Uranus (January 2025)
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s…
ESA – Celeste
The world runs on invisible satellite navigation signals: they fuel our society, generate economic growth and…
Rising ocean-surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea
Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet…
Space safety hazards: space weather
Solar storms can put on beautiful light shows in the night sky, known as auroras. But…
Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2
The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is dominated…
ESA – Yellow River Delta, China
This image of the Yellow River Delta and its surrounding basin was acquired on 08 February…