Large Space Simulator

An external view of Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, the Large Space Simulator, which subjects entire satellites…

Preview of Gaia’s sky in colour

This map is a preview of Gaia’s measurements of the sky in colour. The image includes…

Preview of Gaia’s sky in colour

This map is a preview of Gaia’s measurements of the sky in colour. The image includes…

Circular formation

Clockwise from top: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos cosmonaut…

Circular formation

Clockwise from top: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos cosmonaut…

SOHO’s view

The 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated with a medium-class X-ray flare (M1.1…

Multispacecraft view

Observations of the 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection seen by various Sun-watching spacecraft. The eruption…

SOHO’s view

The 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated with a medium-class X-ray flare (M1.1…

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

Animation visualising the propagation of a coronal mass ejection leaving the Sun on 14 October 2014…

Multispacecraft view

Observations of the 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection seen by various Sun-watching spacecraft. The eruption…