Vega VV04 upper composite integration

Integration of the fully integrated fairing of Vega VV04, carrying IXV, in the launcher assembly area…

XMM-Newton and Hubble view of Jupiter’s Ghost

Names of astronomical objects are often ambiguous, especially when the historical designation of a certain class…

ATV-4 reentry timelapse from space

ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, burnt up on 2 November at 12:04 GMT over…

Height of Bangladesh mangrove

Information on mangrove forest height can be used to estimate biomass, which is extremely important for…

Philae above the comet?

Rosetta’s OSIRIS wide-angle camera captured this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014 at 17:18…

Corsica

The Mediterranean Sea’s most mountainous island, Corsica, dominates this image from the Landsat-8 satellite. About 40%…

Earth from Space: Corsican waters

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Numerous wetlands…

ESA Euronews: The dark side

All we can see around us, from planet Earth to distant galaxies, represents just five per…

Hubble image of NGC 7714

NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth — a relatively close neighbour…

IXV during fairing encapsulation

The IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, installed on its payload adapter, is being prepared for launch, at Europe's…