Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano completed his first mission to the International Space Station in 2013.…
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German wildfire
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the blaze from a military training site in northern Germany …
Solar Orbiter array deployment
ESA’s Solar Orbiter undergoing a solar array deployment test at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany…
Radiation sensitive
There is little known about the effects of space radiation on the human body. Astronauts cannot…
Cosmic fireworks in ultraviolet
Telescopes, including Hubble, have monitored the Eta Carinae star system for more than two decades. It…
Wing stretch
Space Science Image of the Week: Solar Orbiter stretches out one of its arrays during pre-launch…
ESA Impact 2019
Quarter 2 is now online. Browse the stunning images and videos of our activities so far…
What is an eclipse?
Find out about the differences between a solar and lunar eclipse in this short video …
Trillions of stars
This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 45 million light-years away…
Gulf of Taranto
Earth observation image of the week: the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of…