This false-color composite image of a beautiful heart-shaped geographical formation in the dramatic landscape of the southern highlands of Bolivia was processed by selecting spectral…
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Artist’s impression of the CryoSat satellite in orbit. Credit: ESA/AOES Medialab Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the…
A high-definition image of the Mars Australe lava plain on the Moon taken by Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter in November 2007. Credit: JAXA/NHK The first…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image takes us over Lake George, in western Uganda. In 1988, Lake George was designated as Uganda’s first Ramsar site, given its…
Image of the fireball from the seaside resort town of Bude, northeast Cornwall, England, at 23:24 UTC. Credit: Chris Small On January 21, 2020, a…
A barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 7541, seen here as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in the constellation of Pisces (The Fishes).…
This almost cloud-free image of Taal volcano was captured on January 23, 2020, at 02:20 GMT (10:20 local time) by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, and…
This composite image was created by combing three separate ‘Normalized Difference Vegetation Index’ images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The first image, from April 8,…
The changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. Credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium Presenting the changing activity of our…
Picture captured on May 24, 2019, by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO…
Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar surrounding the central core of a foreground massive galaxy.The multiple…
Artist impression of activities in a Moon Base. Power generation from solar cells, food production in greenhouses and construction using mobile 3D printer-rovers. Credit: ESA…
As part of the international Cassini mission, ESA’s Huygens probe made history on January 14, 2005, when it became the first probe to successfully land…
A galaxy named NGC 1803 as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al. This bright, somewhat blob-like…
This image shows part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs…
(Click image for full view.) In this image, captured on June 21, 2018, several clouds can be seen over the Northern Isles, top right of…
Credit: ESA–SJM Photography This novel ‘water drop’ antenna lens design for directing radio wave signals was developed by a pair of antenna engineers from ESA…
[embedded content] Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but…
Galaxy NGC 2770. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a close-up view of a galaxy…
(Click image for full view.) This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows smoke pouring from numerous fires in New South Wales on January 3, 2020. Credit: Contains…