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Hubble & Gaia solve our galaxy's merger mystery
17 Aug 2026 at 3:00pm
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends...
Read more...Total solar eclipse 2026 (Official ESA broadcast)
17 Aug 2026 at 2:00pm
Video: 01:10:42 We broadcast live from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Spain as a total solar eclipse crossed Europe on 12 August 2026.
The path of totality swept across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a small area of northeastern Portugal, while much of Europe experienced a...
Read more...Watch Sophie Adenot’s spacewalk live
17 Aug 2026 at 6:00am
Watch ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot venture into the vacuum of space for her first-ever spacewalk on Tuesday, 18 August.
Read more...Week in images: 10-14 August 2026
14 Aug 2026 at 1:10pm
Week in images: 10-14 August 2026
Discover our week through the lens
Read more...A look back at the 2026 total solar eclipse
14 Aug 2026 at 10:00am
On 12 August 2026, Europe witnessed the first total solar eclipse in over two decades. Millions of people were awed by the Moon completely covering the Sun's bright disc, briefly turning day into night and revealing the Sun's outer atmosphere. Totality could be seen from Greenland, Iceland, Spa...
Read more...MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europe
13 Aug 2026 at 8:30am
Video: 00:00:04 Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – co...
Read more...Musification of the 2026 total solar eclipse
12 Aug 2026 at 12:00pm
Video: 00:05:08 [English] Experience a musical simulation of the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse as seen from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (Spain). Click here for information about ESA’s live broadcast from this observatory, or visit esa.int/solareclipse for an overview...
Read more...A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe
11 Aug 2026 at 12:30pm
Video: 00:01:24 When the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, it casts a shadow onto Earth's surface. For people in the darkest part of this shadow, the face of the Sun is totally blocked out, and its wispy atmosphere becomes visible.
On Wednesday 12 August, such a shadow will cross Gr...
Read more...Dust and water spotted close to giant black hole
11 Aug 2026 at 8:00am
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The observations reveal that the evolved star IRS 3 continues...
Read more...Lion Nebula roars to life for Webb
10 Aug 2026 at 2:00pm
Image: Observing across the starry 'plains' of space, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light ...
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