The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this impressive shot of the almost cloud-free Scandinavian Peninsula on March 20, 2022. Technical note: the image is a mosaic…
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This is an artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. It will eventually…
This artificial bone sample is an early step towards making 3D bioprinting a practical tool for emergency medicine in space. Credit: ESA-Remedia This artificial bone…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image allows us a wider view of Lake Powell and its dwindling water levels amidst the climate crisis. After decades of drought,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy M91. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows us Rybnik, located southwest of Katowice, with several coal mines visible in the nearby surroundings. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel…
ESA is working on the concept of collecting solar power up in orbit, where sunlight is up to 11 times more intense than across European…
Artist’s concept of the Big Bang. The Big BangThe Big Bang is the leading cosmological model explaining how the universe as we know it began…
Researchers were able to directly image newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and its…
Animation of an asteroid rotating in space. Asteroids are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the Sun, but do not meet the requirements to be classified…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5921, a galaxy that lies approximately 80 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh, Acknowledgement: R.…
The Sunrise Arc Galaxy With Lensed Star Earendel Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI), Image Processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)…
Model of the well-known October 30, 2003, Halloween solar storm produced by the MIDAS tomographic ionospheric model from the University of Bath. Credit: University of…
This cluster of stars is known as Messier 15, and is located some 35 000 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse).…
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Utopia Planitia, a plain that fills one of three major basins in the northern hemisphere of Mars –…
This image shows the Milky Way as seen by Gaia. The squares represent the location of globular clusters, the triangles the location of satellite galaxies,…
A constellation of satellites around the Moon. Credit: ESA ESA is going to the Moon – in collaboration with its international partners – and seeks…
Artist’s conception of the Webb Telescope in space. Credit: NASA The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting…
From the cupola on the ISS, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti points at the Dragon spacecraft she just grappled on April 17, 2015, with the 16m-long…
The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…