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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during one of her first workouts at the start of the εpsilon mission.

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The SpaceX Dragon carrying four Crew-12 members, including ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, nears the International Space Station for a docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port.

εpsilon launch

Crew-12 Walkout with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot

Crew-12 upon their arrival at the Kennedy Space Center

Crew-12 in front of a SpaceX booster

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NGC 1637 (Hubble WFC3 and Webb NIRCam images)

France hit by severe flooding

Proba-2's view from Earth orbit of an annular solar eclipse

The stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiral

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate.

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels

Uranus (January 2025)

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

Yellow River Delta, China

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt.

First Ariane 6 with four boosters launched

Mobile hangar moves back to reveal first Ariane 6 with four boosters on the launch pad

ESA medical doctor Sarah Gaier tests water from the recycling system at Concordia station in Antarctica

Lowering the upper part of Ariane 6 flight VA267 onto the rocket on the launch pad

Ramses contract signature 10 February 2026

Accumulated rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula

The Egg Nebula

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

With the 2026 Winter Olympics officially opening today, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us a striking view of northern Italy, highlighting several key Olympic venues.

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Global surface and cloud-top temperatures by MTG-Sounder

Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

Venus setting

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