Artist’s illustration of a comet soaring through space. Comets are cosmic snowballs, the frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of frozen…
Posts published in “European Space Agency”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Comet Interceptor has been selected as ESA’s new fast-class mission. It will be the first spacecraft to visit a truly pristine comet or other interstellar…
One of the surprising discoveries coming out of Gaia data release 3, is that Gaia is able to detect starquakes – tiny motions on the…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene of globular cluster Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius, towards the center of the Milky Way. Credit:…
This radar image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows us the only city-island-nation – Singapore – and one of the busiest ports in the…
Hubble Space Telescope of globular cluster Ruprecht 106. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASAEstablished…
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured on January 19, 2022, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s…
The universe’s expansion rate is accelerating. The unknown energy source causing this acceleration is called Dark Energy. Credit: Visualization by Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster Liller 1. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro The subdued red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1…
This satellite image, which features the German city of Bonn, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. With its high-resolution optical camera, it can image…
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System. Credit: Northrup Grumman The…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 6558. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster…
This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured on April 9, 2022, by Planet SkySat – a fleet of satellites…
Video clip of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and his Expedition 66 crewmates experiencing a reboost of the International Space Station. While the video at the…
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 image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of a large fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae. This image comprises data gathered by…
Elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Credit: NASA, ESA, R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk…