No, this is not a deleted scene or an abandoned set from a science fiction movie. But you’re not far off. Actually, this colorful structure is the 50m tall, 1000-ton mobile launch gantry for ESA’s Vega launcher in French Guiana, as seen from the bottom looking up, captured by photographer Edgar Martins. [ESA]
This bright blue sperm, in fact a swirling mass of dust and gas, doesn’t need an egg to impregnate: it’s producing baby stars all by itself.
The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle Georges Lemaître will soon deliver over 2,600 kg of dry cargo to the International Space Station—and even packing it looks kinda fun.
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If this image looks oddly familiar, it’s because its a series of crop fields seen from the air—just as a wonderful, colorful radar composite image.
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The largest ever census of dust in the local Universe has been carried out by the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory—and the results are huge and beautiful.
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It may look more like modern art, but you’re actually looking at a the highlands of Ecuador seen from the European Space Agency’s Envisat.
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This single 8 inch-diameter sheet of silicon is etched with 35 replicas of five different chips, each one destined to be sent into space.
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This image of twinkling stars is the first picture to be beamed back to Earth by the Gaia telescope—whose mission is to scan the entire sky
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Two and a half years is a long time to sleep—even for a machine. That’s how long Rosetta has slumbered in its decade-long journey towards the comet where it will land. But in the dead of the night, at 2am PST tomorrow morning, Rosetta will awaken. Here’s how its alarm clock works.
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It might look more like abstract art than anything else, but you’re actually looking at a series of observations of the Sun.
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