An unprecedented amount of fires have broken out in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In this image, captured…
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Blue Bahamas
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano captured this image of the Bahamas from the International Space Station and…
First Sun
First sunlight in Antartctic research station Concordia after four months of darkness. ESA research medical doctor…
The death of a star
This atmospheric Picture of the Week, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a dark, gloomy scene…
ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign experiments
Engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists convened in Bordeaux, France, for ESA’s 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over…
Grasp experiment
The GRASP experiment (Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance) seeks to better understand how the central nervous…
Speaking to Sweden from space
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano addresses attendees at the Stockholm Culture festival in Sweden live from the…
Deployment test of Webb’s secondary mirror
The secondary mirror – visible in the top right corner of the image – is among…
The inky abyss
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded…