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ESA School Days 2025 at ESRIN

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Earth from Space: Giza, Egypt

Image: This very high-resolution image captures the Egyptian city of Giza and its surrounding area, including the world-famous Giza Pyramid Complex.

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Sea surface warming faster than expected

Satellite observations show that sea-surface temperatures over the past four decades have been getting warmer at an accelerated pace.

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Register now for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna

Registrations are now open for the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium (LPS) – one of the largest Earth observation conferences in the world. The event will take place on 23–27 June 2025 in Vienna, Austria.

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Space technologies find new life on Earth

Each year, cutting-edge technologies developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its complex missions and scientific discoveries find new life in applications used to benefit Earth and improve our daily lives.

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Hubble offers a new view of Sombrero galaxy

Image: Sombrero Galaxy

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Forest mission sealed within rocket fairing for liftoff

With the launch of ESA’s Biomass satellite scheduled for 29 April, preparations at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have reached a key milestone. The satellite has now been sealed inside the protective fairing of the Vega-C rocket – now hidden from view, the satellite is almost ready for its journey into space.

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Hera's Mars flyby - Asteroid Framing Camera (colourised)

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On 12 March 2025, ESA’s Hera spacecraft soared just 5000 km above Mars and passed within 300 km of its distant moon, Deimos. Captured by Hera’s 1020x1020 pixel Asteroid Framing Camera, this video sequence offers a rare view of the red planet and its enigmatic moon. The original greyscale images have been colour-enhanced based on known surface features.

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Webb brings dying star's energetic display into full focus

Image: Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 (MIRI image)

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Week in images: 07-11 April 2025

Week in images: 07-11 April 2025

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Aleš Svoboda | Supersonic, Space Stuff & STEM | ESA Explores #14

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Meet Aleš Svoboda— A skilled pilot with over 1500 flight hours, Aleš holds a PhD in aircraft and rocket technology and has commanded Quick Reaction Alerts. From flying high to training underwater, he’s always ready to take on new challenges—now including astronaut reserve training with ESA.

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From boring to bursting: a giant black hole awakens

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behaviour unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the mysterious behaviour of massive black holes.

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Earth from Space: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Space Rider’s smart ALEK passes bumpy, noisy, shocking testing

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Biomass fully loaded

Marking a major milestone in the preparation of ESA’s Biomass satellite for its scheduled 29 April liftoff, experts have completed the critical and hazardous process of fuelling the satellite.

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New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Image: New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

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Martian rock on the move

This new snapshot from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express deftly captures the two distinct faces of Mars: ridged and rugged versus smooth and unmarked.

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Weather, climate and air quality missions on display

The first of the new generation of MetOp satellites, MetOp-SG Satellite-A, together with the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, are now ready to be shipped to their launch site. But before the last leg of their terrestrial journey, they were on display to the media at Airbus’s facilities in Toulouse, France.

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Smile meets Maxwell

Image: Smile meets Maxwell

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ESA shares space proposals with industry

Europe’s space industry gathered at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands on 3–4 April to gain insights into the future of space in Europe.

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Week in images: 31 March - 04 April 2025

Week in images: 31 March - 04 April 2025

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