Comet ISON approaches the Sun

Comet ISON at 12:42 UT on 27 November as seen in SOHO's LASCO C3 field of…

Spacelab-1 in orbit

The ESA Spacelab-1 laboratory module in the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-9, November 1983

Spacelab-1/STS-9 launch, 28 November 1983

28 November 1983: Liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight of ESA’s Spacelab.

Spacelab-1/STS-9 launch, 28 November 1983

28 November 1983: Liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight of ESA’s Spacelab.

From launch to landing: Luca’s Volare mission

Luca Parmitano was the first of ESA’s class of 2009 astronauts to visit the International Space…

Magnetic field: learning more with Swarm

To learn more about Earth’s magnetic field, the three Swarm satellites were launched on 22 November.…

Spacelab-1 Sled experiment, 1981

A test subject sitting on Sled, an ESA experiment launched on Spacelab-1 on 28 November 1983.…

Paxi in the Drop Tower

Paxi free falling in the ZARM Drop Tower and experimenting weightlessness during 4.7 seconds.

Magnetic field: why it matters

Earth’s magnetic field is continuously changing. Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the…

Herschel’s 37 000 science observations

This animation shows the timeline of over 37 000 scientific observations made by ESA’s Herschel space observatory…