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From inner to outer space

Enceladus orbiting within Saturn's E ring

Organic compounds in Enceladus ice grains

Saturn's moon Enceladus

Interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus

Hydrothermal activity on Enceladus

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

The Milky Way’s great wave in motion

The Milky Way's great wave illustrated

Webb brings cosmic lenses into focus

Illustration of moon-forming disc

ESA’s Mars and Jupiter missions observe comet 3I/ATLAS

Spiral, elliptical or neither?

Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam image)

Sagittarius B2 (MIRI image)

Slider: Sagittarius B2 (NIRCam & MIRI images)

Cologne in big

Doha in big

Medina in big

Montreal in big

Abu Dhabi in big

Kiev in big

Baghdad in big

Mars’s atmospheric mille-feuille

ESA Astronaut Reserve receives new training patch

The smouldering heart of a celestial cigar

Astronaut Reserve Training patch

Zoom into Gaia’s star-formation map (highlighted)

Gaia’s star-formation map (zoom-in)

Gaia’s star-formation map

Gaia’s star-formation map (slider)

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still 2)

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

Members of ESA's astronaut reserve during a parabolic flight campaign.

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.

Cloudy cluster

Columbus laboratory

Truck with Plato spacecraft arrives at ESTEC

Plato unloaded at ESTEC

Plato moved in the cleanroom

Plato placed in clean tent

Plato rotated upwards in the ESTEC clean tent

Plato safely arrived at ESTEC

Plato loaded onto vessel for transport to ESTEC

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Immense stellar jet in Milky Way outskirts

Solar Orbiter: journey around the Sun

Anatomy of the Milky Way

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