On the southwestern coast of Greenland, multiple ice streams that drain the Greenland ice sheet are…
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Astronauts to watch World Cup from Space Station
As fans around the world tune in watch the World Cup in Brazil, a few fans…
Golden rings of star formation
Taking centre stage in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as…
Hailing Hertz
Technology image of the week: selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently…
Hailing Hertz
Technology image of the week: selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently…
Renaming ESA’s antenna test chamber
Selected after a worldwide competition, the new name of ESA’s recently refitted Compact Payload Test Range…
Sea-level detail from CryoSat
Detail of sea-surface topography: red represents higher sea levels while blue areas are lower. The ‘strips’…
Station over Darmstadt
This image is a composite of nine photos taken 5–10 minutes after midnight on 6–7 June…
Herschel’s population of trans-Neptunian objects
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a…
Cosmic collision in the Bullet Group
A composite view of the Bullet Group reveals its constituents and their peculiar arrangement. The hot…