ESA - Extreme space - Archive

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Huygens approaching Titan

Science & Exploration

Tracking Huygens during its descent

10/12/2004 2206 views 4 likes

Gaia spacecraft showing deployed sunshield and solar arrays

Science & Exploration

Keeping ESA’s ‘lady of space’ cool

21/09/2004 2627 views 6 likes

Size comparison between Earth and Mars

Science & Exploration

How big are space objects?

23/08/2004 4359 views 4 likes

Close-up of an Ariane launch

Science & Exploration

Surviving extreme conditions in space

27/07/2004 95200 views 378 likes

N11B star-forming region, in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Science & Exploration

Star-forming region N11B, in the Large Magellanic Cloud

06/07/2004 4649 views 5 likes

Artist impression of a giant black hole

Science & Exploration

Discovering missing black holes

11/06/2004 2491 views 1 likes

Pistol star, one of the Galaxy's brightest stars in Milky Way's core

Science & Exploration

Travelling back in time

19/05/2004 4451 views 26 likes

Ring galaxy AM 0644-741

Science & Exploration

Happy birthday, Hubble

23/04/2004 133086 views 1283 likes

Will Huygens land or splashdown on Titan?

Science & Exploration

ESA’s ‘shipping forecast’ - from Titan!

01/04/2004 1091 views 1 likes

Spirograph Nebula (IC 418)

Science & Exploration

Spirograph Nebula (IC 418)

25/03/2004 4868 views 7 likes

ESA's Integral solves thirty-year old gamma-ray mystery

Science & Exploration

ESA's Integral solves thirty-year old gamma-ray mystery

17/03/2004 2665 views 3 likes

SOHO sees eruptive prominence

Science & Exploration

SOHO snaps spectacular Sun shot

16/03/2004 2673 views 1 likes

Hubble reveals galactic drama

Science & Exploration

Looking back in time

09/03/2004 5685 views 7 likes

Herschel primary reflector mirror after brazing

Science & Exploration

The largest telescope mirror ever put into space

23/02/2004 7944 views 23 likes

The tremendous gravitational pull of a giant black hole

Science & Exploration

Giant black hole rips star apart

18/02/2004 5587 views 4 likes

Close-up of the large galaxy cluster Abell 2218

Science & Exploration

The farthest known galaxy in the Universe

18/02/2004 7452 views 9 likes

An artist's impression of the Integral spacecraft

Science & Exploration

ESA’s ‘rapid reaction force’

28/01/2004 1524 views 0 likes

A tale of two record-breaking clusters

Science & Exploration

Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters

01/01/2004 1835 views 0 likes

Galaxy cluster RXJ0847

Science & Exploration

What is the Universe made of?

16/12/2003 318865 views 769 likes

Cluster

Science & Exploration

Cluster's current affairs

03/12/2003 867 views 0 likes

Jupiter's moon Io casts a shadow as it transits Jupiter

Science & Exploration

Io moves across the face of Jupiter

10/11/2003 4322 views 9 likes

Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003

Science & Exploration

The biggest solar X-ray flare ever is classified as X28

06/11/2003 81339 views 176 likes

Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003

Science & Exploration

Biggest EVER solar flare!

05/11/2003 6709 views 11 likes

The huge solar event of 28 October 2003

Science & Exploration

ENORMOUS X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO

28/10/2003 2699 views 1 likes

NICMOS finds a golden ring at the heart of a galaxy (NICMOS image)

Science & Exploration

Give someone you know a diamond ring: NGC 4013

22/10/2003 1606 views 1 likes

Pistol star, one of the Galaxy's brightest stars in Milky Way's core

Science & Exploration

Pistol star, one of our Galaxy's brightest stars

09/09/2003 6393 views 20 likes

True-colour image of Jupiter, showing impact zones

Science & Exploration

See where comet hit Jupiter in 1994

03/09/2003 10457 views 22 likes

Cone Nebula, a ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust

Science & Exploration

Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)

13/08/2003 3033 views 8 likes

Artist's impression of Mars

Science & Exploration

Holiday weather on Mars

13/08/2003 3887 views 1 likes

Artist's impression of the surface of a waterworld

Science & Exploration

Searching for the 'real' waterworld

09/07/2003 3343 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst

Science & Exploration

Gamma-ray detectives close in on 30-year-old mystery

26/06/2003 3072 views 3 likes

XMM-Newton measures the magnetic field of a neutron star for the first time

Science & Exploration

ESA's XMM-Newton makes the first measurement of a dead star…

11/06/2003 1460 views 0 likes

The Boomerang Nebula - the coolest place in the Universe?

Science & Exploration

Coldest place in the Universe?

31/03/2003 59364 views 115 likes

A black hole and companion star with supernova

Science & Exploration

Speeding black hole

08/11/2002 14673 views 28 likes

Integral's eccentric orbit

Science & Exploration

Integral makes its first measurements

24/10/2002 562 views 0 likes

The European-built solar arrays being rolled up for transport back to Earth

Science & Exploration

Life after retirement for Hubble hardware

20/06/2002 659 views 1 likes

ESA's gamma-ray detecting spacecraft Integral in the Large Space Simulator

Science & Exploration

Extreme machine simulates space conditions

07/05/2002 4089 views 18 likes

Gamma-ray bursts: the most powerful explosions in the Universe

Science & Exploration

ESA's X-ray space telescope proves supernova can cause myst…

04/04/2002 2542 views 1 likes

Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673

Science & Exploration

Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673 [heic0205]

25/03/2002 1765 views 2 likes

A ball of ionized gas is hurled from the Sun (4 January 2002)

Science & Exploration

SOHO sees dazzling eruption from the Sun

07/01/2002 2234 views 1 likes

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