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A crowded field of galaxies throngs this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, along with bright stars crowned with Webb’s signature six-pointed diffraction spikes.

Tempestuous young stars in Orion

Visitor to a galaxy

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter heatwave. The warm temperatures and lack of snowfall in the Alps has left several ski resorts with little or no snow. The difference in snow cover is visible in these Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured in January 2022 compared to January 2023.

How Hera asteroid mission will phone home

Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger

This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows the wide-coverage of snowfall in the Alps, which hopefully bodes well for the coming year.

Tomorrow’s technology centre

Europe’s all-new weather satellite takes to the skies

Pillars of Creation (NIRCam and MIRI composite image)

Hall of mirrors for Proba-3 laser testing

Antenna to link up CubeSat chains

ESA Extremes

Gearing up for the Moon

Wireless power from space

Halloween Crack for Halloween

Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat

Ten years: Warsaw at night

Webb explores a pair of merging galaxies

Hubble follow-up of DART impact

A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted early on Sunday morning, releasing huge plumes of smoke and a lava flow pouring into the sea. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the aftermath less than five hours after the eruption.

Cables, tie-wraps and no step!

Overlapping galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image)

ESA opens up

ESA’s Test Centre expands

Webb takes its first exoplanet image

Data captured from space by Copernicus Sentinel-1 on 30 August was used to map the extent of flooding that is currently devastating Pakistan.

One small step for a robot

Inflatable Moon base

ESA astronaut rad-detectors on Artemis

A record-breaking drought has caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up – affecting hydropower, shipping routes and limiting drinking water supplies. Images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission show a comparison of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, near Chongqing, over the last three years.

Jupiter showcases aurorae, hazes (NIRCam widefield view)

A special Moon snap

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