Resting on the tail of the Great Bear in the constellation of Ursa Major, lies NGC 5585,…
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Offloading SEOSAT-Ingenio
The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, has arrived safely at Europe’s Spaceport in…
Lucky meteoroid skims Earth’s atmosphere
A rock from space was recently observed skimming Earth’s atmosphere. The meteoroid was spotted in the…
Vulcain 2.1 roars
TheVulcain 2.1 engine for Ariane 6 performed its acceptance test inFrance on 21July 2020. …
CRISTAL in action
With launch planned in 2027, the Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter, CRISTAL, mission will…
Folding the wings of Orion for the last time
Earlier this week at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, the last solar wing for…
Vatnajökull, Iceland
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Vatnajökull ice cap, in southeast Iceland. …
Eye of the serpent
The twisting patterns created by the multiple spiral arms of NGC 2835 create the illusion of…
Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020,…