Video: 00:03:28 The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter, captured around the spacecraft’s first close pass of the Sun, some 77 million kilometres from its surface, are already exceeding expectations revealing interesting new phenomena on our parent star. This animation shows a series of close-up views captured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at wavelengths […]
Video: 00:01:29 The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter are already exceeding expectations and revealing interesting new phenomena on the Sun. This animation combines a series of views captured with several remote-sensing instruments on Solar Orbiter between 30 May and 21 June 2020, when the spacecraft was roughly halfway between the Earth and the Sun […]
The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed ‘campfires’, near the surface of our closest star. To source
Video: 00:03:00 ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back its first images of the Sun. At 77 million kilometres from the surface, this is the closest a camera has ever flown to our nearest star. The pictures reveal features on the Sun’s exterior that have never been seen in detail before. Launched on 10 February […]
The most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed has gained its second satellite. The European Data Relay System (EDRS) was built to accelerate the flow of information from Earth-observation satellites to people on the ground. To source
Image: Place for space testing To source
Image: Skygazers across the Northern Hemisphere are being treated to stunning views of comet NEOWISE as it streaks past Earth. Amateur astrophotographer Javier Manteca got a bonus: the International Space Station and the comet are both seen transiting Madrid in this photo captured 11 July. Taken at dawn, the picture is a composition of 17 […]
Join us on Thursday 16 July for an online press briefing with Solar Orbiter mission experts, who will present the first images from ESA’s new Sun-observing spacecraft. To source
ESA has long-established plans to create a commercial lunar satellite network and now seeks expressions of interest from companies prepared to build and operate it. To source
On 16 July at 10:00 BST / 11.00 CEST, join the third online Global Space Economic Workshop (GSEW) to find out how ESA and the European Investment bank group can facilitate access to financial tools for the European space industrial community to overcome the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. Join the discussion on ESA web TV […]
Discover our new exoplanets collection Ever wondered about the planets outside our Solar System? ESA missions such as Cheops will further our understanding of exoplanets! Discover this new collection featuring these other worlds and the missions that study them. To source
Week in images: 6-10 July 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source
The colossus iceberg that split from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf on 12 July 2017 is now in the open waters of the South Atlantic near the South Orkney Islands, about 1050 km from its birthplace. Having lost two chunks of ice, this record berg is a little less huge than it once was – […]