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Topic: European Space Agency

Early commissioning test image from Euclid’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)

Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury. (Thibaut Roger/Europlanet)

X-ray auroras illuminated on Mercury

Rae Hodge
Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. (NASA/JHU-APL)

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

Nicole Karlis
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Martian lakes and the chance for life

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/rajeshbac)

Liquid water on Mars! For real this time

Emily Lakdawalla - Sky & Telescope
Artist concept of Haumea with the newly-discovered ring. (IAA-CSIC/UHU)

Haumea, the dwarf planet with... rings?

Keith A. Spencer
The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 was taken by the ROLIS instrument on Rosetta's Philae lander during descent from a distance of approximately 3 km from the 4-kilometer-wide (2.5-mile-wide) 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, the European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet. (AP Photo/ESA) (AP/ESA)

Jenny Kutner
(European Space Agency)

Stunning time-lapse of Earth

Joanna Rothkopf
The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA shows the Rosetta mission poster which is a combination of various images to illustrate the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. from the Rosetta spacecraft. The image of the comet was taken with the navigation camera on Rosetta. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 the Philae lander landed on the comet. (AP Photo/ESA)

Sarah Gray
How Philae lands on the comet (ESA/ATG Medialab)

Sarah Gray
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

Alexander Besant - GlobalPost

Alexander Besant - GlobalPost
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