This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of…
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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…
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…
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…