This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of…
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Earth from space: Queesland floods
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…
Earth from space: Queensland floods
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…
Earth from space: Queensland floods
In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us…
Queensland floods
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s northeast state of Queensland, where a large amount…
Testing satellite marker designs
Akin to landing lights for aircraft, ESA is developing infrared and phosphorescent markers for satellites, to…
Bedbound commander
What are you like at docking a virtual spacecraft with a space station? And, more importantly,…
EDRS-C
Ottobrunn, Germany, at the Airbus Defence and Space Compact range test facility the EDRS-C satellite is…
Comet cat
From a distance of five million kilometres to within 20 metres, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft captured images…
Comet or cluster?
Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks the mould. The 12-billion-year-old cluster…