ESA Web TV reports on our ‘next space generation’ Space Talk where students gave their opinion on future space activities To source
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Week in images
Our week through the lens: 07 – 11 October 2019 To source
Past, present and future
Exoplanet pioneer Michel Mayor, one of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics winners, met early career scientists during his recent visit to ESA in Spain To source
Lake Natron
Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa To source
Earth from Space
In this edition, we explore two saline lakes in East Africa with Copernicus Sentinel-2 To source
Typhoon Hagibis
Japan braces for strong winds and torrential rain as Typhoon Hagibis approaches To source
Luca powers up for a spacewalk
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano is preparing to step out into space for his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission. To source
Call for innovation to advance Europe’s lab in space
The International Space Station is open for business and ESA is calling on industry to help extend the capabilities of Europe’s Columbus laboratory to support science and technology in space beyond 2024. To source
River relic spied by Mars Express
Mars may seem to be an alien world, but many of its features look eerily familiar – such as this ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest valley networks on the planet. To source
Exoplanet explorers
Watch Nobel laureate Michel Mayor’s seminar about exoplanets Thursday 10:30–11:30 CEST live from ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre To source
Astronauts and citizens team up against light pollution
For an astronaut looking out of the International Space Station windows, city lights are brighter than the stars. To tackle light pollution citizen scientists are urged to help map out the problem on their smartphones by identifying images of cities taken from space. To source
Metal from moondust
Technology image of the week: Almost all the oxygen has been extracted from this pile of simulated moondust, leaving a mixture of metal alloys To source
Exoplanet and cosmology discoveries awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
ESA congratulates 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who have been awarded the prestigious prize for the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star, and James Peebles, honoured for the theoretical framework of cosmology used to investigate the Universe on its largest scales. To source