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COSMOS Field MoM-z14 Galaxy (NIRCam pullout)

Week in images: 26-30 January 2026

30/01/2026 2414 views 62 likes

Unleashing a solar flare

Week in images: 19-23 January 2026

23/01/2026 2632 views 40 likes

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.

Week in images: 12-16 January 2026

16/01/2026 2894 views 70 likes

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow.

Week in images: 05-09 January 2026

09/01/2026 4821 views 90 likes

Year in images 2025

Year in images 2025

22/12/2025 7165 views 149 likes

Dwarf stars in a glittering sky

Week in images: 15-19 December 2025

19/12/2025 2490 views 39 likes

GRB 250314A Pull-out (NIRCam image)

Week in images: 08-12 December 2025

12/12/2025 2946 views 53 likes

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun

Week in images: 01-05 December 2025

05/12/2025 4716 views 62 likes

Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

Week in images: 24-28 November 2025

28/11/2025 1356 views 32 likes

SOHO observes comet 3I/ATLAS

Week in images: 17-21 November 2025

21/11/2025 1283 views 30 likes

3D-printed space metal under microscope

Week in images: 10-14 November 2025

14/11/2025 1550 views 44 likes

Week in images: 03-07 November 2025

07/11/2025 4937 views 122 likes

The Red Spider Nebula (Webb)

Week in images: 27-31 October 2025

31/10/2025 2445 views 50 likes

First image of nitrogen dioxide from Sentinel-4

Week in images: 20-24 October 2025

24/10/2025 5408 views 78 likes

The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.

Week in images: 13-17 October 2025

17/10/2025 5635 views 100 likes

ExoMars TGO catches a dust devil on Mars

Week in images: 06-10 October 2025

10/10/2025 7627 views 123 likes

Heads of space agencies and offices met at the IAF Global Space Leaders Summit alongside IAC 2025 on 30 September 2025.

Week in images: 29 September - 3 October 2025

03/10/2025 3364 views 62 likes

Typhoon Ragasa seen from space

Week in images: 22-26 September 2025

26/09/2025 1644 views 51 likes

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia.

Week in images: 15-19 September 2025

19/09/2025 2700 views 40 likes

From Antarctica’s Concordia Station, the crew captured the 8 September 2025 total lunar eclipse, while ESA-sponsored doctor Nina Purvis studies human adaptation to extreme conditions for future Moon and Mars missions.

Week in images: 08-12 September 2025

12/09/2025 2078 views 49 likes

A galaxy with lots to see

Week in images: 01-05 September 2025

05/09/2025 2640 views 49 likes

Webb's view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247

Week in images: 25-29 August 2025

29/08/2025 2289 views 47 likes

Iberian fires August 2025

Week in images: 18-22 August 2025

22/08/2025 2882 views 59 likes

Ariane 6 lofts MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 into orbit

Week in images: 11-15 August 2025

15/08/2025 3433 views 84 likes

Week in images: 04-08 August 2025

08/08/2025 2412 views 50 likes

Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field

Week in images: 28 July - 1 August 2025

01/08/2025 2167 views 49 likes

Swirling spiral in Hydra

Week in images: 21-25 July 2025

25/07/2025 2171 views 51 likes

Back to Europe

Week in images: 14-18 July 2025

18/07/2025 1772 views 42 likes

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NIRCam)

Week in images: 07-11 July 2025

11/07/2025 2370 views 62 likes

A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals the temperature of the land surface.

Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025

04/07/2025 2470 views 48 likes

High-contrast coronograph image of TWA 7b

Week in images: 23-27 June 2025

27/06/2025 2358 views 56 likes

Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter

Week in images: 16-20 June 2025

20/06/2025 1963 views 35 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this image over part of eastern Borneo, a tropical island in Southeast Asia.

Week in images: 09-13 June 2025

13/06/2025 1796 views 30 likes

Cebreros transmitting the Blue Danube Waltz

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

06/06/2025 3585 views 88 likes

With the support of the Archives of the French Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs, ESA has produced a facsimile copy of the original convention.

Week in images: 26-30 May 2025

30/05/2025 1699 views 36 likes

Streaks on Mars

Week in images: 19-23 May 2025

23/05/2025 2390 views 57 likes

Titan (Webb image - 11 July 2023)

Week in images: 12-16 May 2025

16/05/2025 2293 views 45 likes

Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.

Week in images: 05-09 May 2025

09/05/2025 4984 views 71 likes

ESA’s Biomass lifts off aboard Vega-C

Week in images: 28 April - 02 May 2025

02/05/2025 3946 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

Week in images: 21-25 April 2025

25/04/2025 2471 views 40 likes

Sombrero Galaxy

Week in images: 14-18 April 2025

18/04/2025 3341 views 70 likes

Fuelling Biomass

Week in images: 07-11 April 2025

11/04/2025 1871 views 43 likes

Week in images: 31 March - 04 April 2025

04/04/2025 4574 views 63 likes

The Cosmic Tornado / Herbig-Haro 49/50 (Webb telescope image)

Week in images: 24-28 March 2025

28/03/2025 4114 views 77 likes

Galaxies in different shapes captured by Euclid

Week in images: 17-21 March 2025

21/03/2025 1572 views 31 likes

Deimos appears to cross Mars

Week in images: 10-14 March 2025

14/03/2025 2550 views 63 likes

Ariane 6 VA263 liftoff

Week in images: 3–7 March 2025

07/03/2025 2143 views 52 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world’s largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India.

Week in images: 24-28 February 2025

28/02/2025 2482 views 54 likes

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image shows Tokyo and its metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.

Week in images: 17-21 February 2025

21/02/2025 3215 views 51 likes

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission picks out a heart in the landscape north of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington.

Week in images: 10-14 February 2025

14/02/2025 5982 views 120 likes

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