ESA astronauts in Houston

It’s a very busy year for ESA astronauts. Following Samantha Cristoforetti’s return to Earth on June…

Stellar density map

The outline of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and of its neighbouring Magellanic Clouds, in an…

Northwest Sardinia

This image over part of the Italian island of Sardinia comes from the very first acquisition…

Intense and short-lived

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 or SDSS CGB 12067.1,…

MSG-4 soon to be launched

After the launch of MSG-3 in 2012, the fourth and final satellite of the Meteosat Second…

Algerian Sahara

 The Sahara desert’s sandy and rocky terrain in central Algeria, captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite in…

Earth from Space: Northwest Sardinia

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. A false-colour…

Site of Princess Elisabeth Base seen by Proba-1

Wind-swept mountain peaks peek above the ice of Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica, as seen by…

Comet activity, 21 June

On 13 August 2015, Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko will reach its closest point to the Sun along its…

Comet activity, 21 June

On 13 August 2015, Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko will reach its closest point to the Sun along its…