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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

A galaxy with lots to see

Webb image of a glittering glimpse of star birth

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim operates European robots from the International Space Station

Graphic indicating how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

Infographic explaining how Solar Orbiter let us see the connection between energetic electrons in space and their sources on the Sun

Webb observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Taking a third look

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

Webb zooms in on a dusty disc

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image)

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Hubble, Webb, ALMA)

Slider: Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Hubble Optical & Near-infrared images)

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Near-infrared Hubble image)

Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Optical Hubble image)

Noteworthy nearby spiral

New moon of Uranus

Low brightness, high interest

A sea monster and a Tarantula

A bird’s-eye view: See Acheron Fossae from above

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