ESA - Space sensations - Archive

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Animation showing number of nearby stars with planets

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How many stars near us have planets?

01/02/2005 1711 views 2 likes

Comet Hyakutake as imaged by LASCO

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Enter SOHO's 1000th comet contest

27/01/2005 461 views 0 likes

Lunar eclipse

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Bad moon rising...

27/10/2004 1346 views 0 likes

A Perseid meteor image, recorded by an ESA video image intensifier camera

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2004 Perseids are coming

21/07/2004 866 views 0 likes

Animated composite of 2004 Venus transit images

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Planet Venus completes transit

09/06/2004 2739 views 0 likes

The movement of Venus across the Sun on 8 June 2004

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Once in a lifetime: the Venus transit 2004

03/06/2004 3200 views 2 likes

Lunar eclipse

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Blood-red Moon

04/05/2004 4441 views 0 likes

EPIC camera shows the expanding rings caused by a flash of X-rays

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X-ray shout echoing through space

26/01/2004 900 views 0 likes

Supernova 1993J exploding (artist’s impression)

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First supernova companion star found

07/01/2004 2185 views 0 likes

The Leonids as seen in 2001

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Look out for the Leonids - times three!

12/11/2003 975 views 0 likes

Checking the sky for meteors

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Listen to the Leonids...

12/11/2003 536 views 0 likes

Lunar eclipse

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See a total eclipse of the Moon

05/11/2003 1204 views 0 likes

SOHO sunspot - 23/09/2003

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Sunspot as big as three planet Earths!

01/10/2003 905 views 0 likes

Shortest distance between Earth and Mars

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Close encounters with Mars

25/08/2003 3814 views 3 likes

SOHO image of the Sun

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Flip a Sun's pole for more dust

20/08/2003 2602 views 7 likes

Checking the sky for meteors

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Shooting-star spectacle in August, 2003

06/08/2003 2997 views 1 likes

Like different musical instruments, different types of stars produce different types of sound waves

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LISTEN UP!

24/07/2003 421 views 0 likes

Horsehead Nebula

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Why are things in space the shape that they are?

23/07/2003 36416 views 82 likes

Mercury will pass in front of the Sun

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Mercury shows its dark side

01/05/2003 2252 views 1 likes

Finding the ashes of the first stars

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Finding the ashes of the first stars

30/04/2003 1630 views 1 likes

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A perfect storm of turbulent gases

24/04/2003 2257 views 0 likes

Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star

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Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star

26/03/2003 6207 views 8 likes

European astronomers observe first evaporating planet

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European astronomers observe first evaporating planet

12/03/2003 1311 views 0 likes

Blaze of stars in an old galaxy's core

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Hubble resolves a blaze of stars in galaxy's core [heic0302]

06/03/2003 890 views 0 likes

A rose blooming in space

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A rose blooming in space

12/09/2002 515 views 1 likes

NICMOS uncovers dust layers to show inner region of dusty nebula

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Hubble's infrared camera is back in business - new images r…

05/06/2002 1378 views 0 likes

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Unusual views of the Sun

21/05/2002 1285 views 8 likes

LASCO C3 image taken on 16 April 2002 at 17:18

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Watch a comet passing near the Sun

17/04/2002 1412 views 1 likes

Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673

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Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673 [heic0205]

25/03/2002 1366 views 2 likes

Comet Machholz 1 seen close to the Sun by SOHO on 8 January 2002

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SOHO's private view of a sunbathing comet

08/01/2002 1218 views 0 likes

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