Massive Iceberg – 10 Times the Size of San Francisco – Breaks Off Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica
A giant iceberg, approximately 1.5 times the size of Greater Paris [or about 10 times the size of San Francisco], broke off from the northern…
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Exploring Earth From Space: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver, visible at the top of the image, lies between the Burrard Inlet, an arm of the Strait of Georgia, to the north, and the…
Big, Beautiful and Blue: Hubble Captures Immense Galaxy That Stretches 200,000 Light-Years Across
NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred…
ExoMars Orbiter Captures Perseverance at Landing Site in Mars’ Jezero Crater
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute, heat shield, and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater…
European Space Agency Plans Mission to Explore Caves on the Moon
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon’s subterranean secrets, in 2019 ESA asked for your ideas to detect, map, and explore lunar caves. Five…
Eberswalde Crater Delta: Ancient River Delta Once Carried Liquid Water Across the Surface of Mars
This intricate structure of an ancient river delta once carried liquid water across the surface of Mars. The distinctive form of a delta arises from…
Hubble Captures an Eye in the Sky – “Evil Eye” Galaxy With Strange Internal Motion
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features NGC4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma…
Is the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on the Brink?
In early 2019, all eyes were fixed on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, where a massive iceberg, around the size of Greater London, appeared…
Italy’s Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing a Fountain of Lava and Ash Into the Sky
Italy’s Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has erupted twice in less than 48 hours, spewing a fountain of lava and ash…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Communications Disrupted by the Sun
What happens when the Solar System’s No. 1 source of violent energy interferes with spacecraft communication? Name? Solar Orbiter, or ‘Solo’ as the mission control…
Tantrums of a Baby Star: Herbig-Haro Objects
Herbig-Haro objects are some of the rarer sights in the night sky, taking the form of thin spindly jets of matter floating amongst the surrounding…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Is About to Land on the Red Planet – It Will Have Some Help From These Mars Orbiters
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land on the Red Planet ESA’s Mars orbiters – the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter…
Exploring Earth From Space: Valentine Island, Australia
For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Valentine Island in northern Western Australia. The tiny Valentine Island, visible in the top-left of…
At the Rim of a Martian Crater
This image features the southeast wall of a small crater located a few hundred kilometers to the north of the giant Hellas impact basin on…
Unexpected Discovery: Hubble Space Telescope Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Scientists were expecting to find an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, but instead they found evidence of a…
A New Chemistry: ExoMars Orbiter Discovers New Gas and Traces Water Loss on Mars
Sea salt embedded in the dusty surface of Mars and lofted into the planet’s atmosphere has led to the discovery of hydrogen chloride – the…
A Cosmic Hourglass – Bipolar Planetary Nebula Captured by Hubble
This week’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula…
Aeolus Mission Shines a Light on Complex Phenomenon of the Polar Vortex
As this winter’s polar vortex currently sends extreme icy blasts of Arctic weather to some parts of the northern hemisphere such as the northeast of…