Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano completed his first mission to the International Space Station in 2013.…
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Solar Orbiter array deployment
ESA’s Solar Orbiter undergoing a solar array deployment test at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany…
Cosmic fireworks in ultraviolet
Telescopes, including Hubble, have monitored the Eta Carinae star system for more than two decades. It…
Trillions of stars
This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 45 million light-years away…
Earth from space: Gulf of Taranto
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the…
Proba-2’s predicted view of 2 July eclipse
On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the South Pacific, falling…
Perspective view of Aurorae Chaos
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Aurorae Chaos, a large area of chaotic terrain located…
Total solar eclipse
Time-lapse video of the total eclipse of the Sun seen from Casper, Wyoming (US), on 21…
Hera: ESA’s planetary defence mission
Hera will show us things we’ve never seen before. Astrophysicist and and Queen guitarist Brian May…
Raikoke spits ash
An unexpected and powerful eruption started at Raikoke volcano in the Kuril Islands on 21 June…