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ESA BIC Sweden opening
At the ESA Businesses Incubation Centre opening 18 December 2015 from left: Olle Norberg (Swedish National…
Sparkling Stephan’s Quintet
The Stephan’s Quintet of galaxies was discovered by astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1877. At the time,…
Comet on 16 December 2015 from OSIRIS narrow-angle camera
Single-frame OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 16 December 2015, when Rosetta was 113.3 km from…
Tim arrives at Space Station
ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut commander Yuri Malenchenko arrived at…
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ready to leave
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) inside a Spacebus 4000 container prior to departure from the…
Proba-V images snowy Saskatchewan
Snow blankets much of this eastern part of Canada’s Saskatchewan province, in this 28 November 2015…
Mongolian marvel
This stunning, false-colour image captured by Sentinel-2A on 15 August features southern Mongolia, bordered by China…
Earth from Space: Mongolian marvel
Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…