Week in images: 6 – 10 September 2021

Week in images: 6 – 10 September 2021 Discover our week through the lens …

Fireball streams over Southern Germany

Lucky border dwellers of Southern Germany and Switzerland got a remarkable opportunity recently to witness a…

A glittering globular cluster

This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717, which lies more than…

Volcanic trenches on Mars

Image: This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars [10.3°N, 159.5°E] was…

Selection begins | ESA’s next astronauts

Video: 00:03:30 Work is underway to sort and assess applications from more than 22 500 ESA…

Earth from Space: Danube Delta

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, we explore the second largest river…

Danube Delta

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Danube Delta – the second largest river delta…

Cassini’s wake: how might a spacecraft disturb its own measurements?

Simply by moving through the heavens, spacecraft change the space about them. Such interactions are invisible…

Webb completes testing

Fully assembled and fully tested, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has completed its primary testing…

Dates set for Space Station change of command as Franco-German relations awarded Media prize

The dates have been set for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s upcoming command of the International Space…