ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury at its closest approach. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Scientists from NASA and…
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A fantastic new class of star-forming nursery, known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for short, imaged with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Located…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017-19), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic…
Asteroid 65803 Didymos is a binary near-Earth asteroid; the primary body has a diameter of around 780 m and a rotation period of 2.26 hours,…
A huge iceberg called A-68 calved from the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017. Three years on, it is in open…
The Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission is dedicated to monitoring air pollution by measuring a multitude of trace gases as well as aerosols. This image shows the…
Noctilucent or ‘night shining’ clouds (NLC) are captured over Knowlton Church in Dorset, UK, by astrophotographer Ollie Taylor in the early hours of June 22,…
Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 60 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Stiavelli Captured by…
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution…
Galaxy NGC 2775 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla). The…
ESA, NASA and JAXA have worked closely together to combine a wealth of data from Earth-observing satellites from the three space agencies to monitor the…
This false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission features the Andes mountains, in southern Peru. This image was processed in a way that makes…
Galaxy known as NGC 5907 as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. de Jong Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) The…
These two new images from the Hubble Space Telescope depict two nearby young planetary nebulae, NGC 6302, dubbed the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027, which…
Artist’s view of Vega VV16 with the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser and SAT-AIS.Visible are the Zefiro-9 upper stage, the Attitude Vernier Upper Module…
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the tourism and travel industry to a near-standstill, with nationwide lockdowns significantly impacting the aviation and maritime industry worldwide. Satellite…
ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge at ESTEC. Credit: ESA ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University,…
In this image captured on July 20, 2019, the streaks, eddies, and whirls of the late summer blooms, mixed by winds and currents, are clearly…
Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC 2608. Credit:ESA/Hubble &…
Galaxy KK 246, a dwarf irregular galaxy residing within the Local Void, looks like glitter spilled across a black velvet sheet in this Hubble image.…