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The task of Integral, ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, is to gather the most energetic radiation that comes from space. Credit: ESA. Illustration by D.…
Only around 17% of the carbon budget is now left. That is about 10 years at current emission rates. Credit: ESA/Planetary Visions The Paris Agreement…
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO This image was taken on March 22, 2021, in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E] of Mars Mars is…
A first global assessment using satellite observations shows that for two-thirds of the world, afforestation increases low-level cloud cover, with the effect being strongest over…
This map shows the above ground biomass in Russia, using data generated by ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Biomass project. Credit: ESA (data source: CCI…
This map was generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer. While weather forecasts use predicted air temperatures, this satellite instrument…
Smoke billowing from several fires along the southern coast of Turkey, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on July 30, 2021. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel…
Illustration of how light echoes from behind a black hole. Credit: ESA For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a…
Artist’s impression of the Nu2 Lupi planetary system. Credit: © ESA While exploring two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Cheops satellite…
Illustration of ESA’s Mars Express at Mars. Credit: ESA Long-term studies of ozone and water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars could lead to better…
Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 195, a three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton A dramatic triplet of galaxies…
The Tarso Toussidé volcanic massif is featured in this false-color composite image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019),…
Galaxy cluster MACSJ0138.0-2155 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Newman, M. Akhshik, K. Whitaker The center of this image from…
Astris added to the Ariane 6 upper stage. Credit: ArianeGroup ESA will enhance the versatility of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket with a kick stage called…
Artist’s impression of the Nu2 Lupi planetary system. Credit: © ESA Photobombs — when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera’s field of sight during…
[embedded content] The European Robotic Arm (ERA) will be launched to the International Space Station together with the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, called ‘Nauka’. ERA…
After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden. The…
Artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA…