Videos from ESA in Noordwijk

You know that moss growing in your aquarium? Turns out it filters water, pumps out oxygen, and actually gets stronger when exposed to low doses of radiation. Researchers at the University of Naple...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 133, orbit 2063 — In this timelapse, I'm retrieving the fourth sample printed with the Europe...

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What really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature's most spectacular phen...

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Europe is facing an intense heatwave, with record temperatures and several cities under red alert. On 23 June, France recorded its hottest June day ever. This image was captured the same day by th...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 128, orbit 1981 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 10: sports science, resistive s...

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After almost 8 years since its launch in 2018, BepiColombo is entering its most critical phase yet. As it gears up for its arrival to Mercury, our flight dynamics specialists, spacecraft controller...

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Months of troubleshooting. Sleepless nights. A team that simply refused to give up. The first week of June 2026? It flew again. And the images of the solar corona are just as breathtaking as ever. ...

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For the first time, Ariane 6 flew with four P160C boosters, each carrying 14 extra tonnes of propellant compared to the previous version, P120C. 📹 ESA - S. Corvaja #ESA #Rocket #Ariane6

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This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Packed wi...

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Sophie is halfway through the εpsilon mission onboard the ISS, and she has already accomplished so much. Between hundreds of hours of scientific research and thousands of photographs taken from spa...

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The next Ariane 6 rocket launch is set for liftoff on 17 June 2026 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The earliest liftoff will be at 8:53 local time (12:53 BST, 13:53 CEST). This flight wil...

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On 17 June at 09:21 local time (13:21 BST, 14:21 CEST), Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation left Earth power...

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The next Ariane 6 rocket launch is set for liftoff on 17 June 2026 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The earliest liftoff will be at 8:53 local time (12:53 BST, 13:53 CEST). This flight wil...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 121, orbit 1873 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 9: Hunting for sounds, part 2. ...

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For decades, we assumed galaxies came first. Stars form, collapse, and slowly build black holes over billions of years. But the James Webb Space Telescope just found a black hole so massive, so an...

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This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb, to reveal the latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month. This area of the sky...

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How does Europe study the Sun? Discover the missions revealing the secrets of our closest star, from SOHO and Solar Orbiter to Proba-3, which is creating artificial solar eclipses in space to unloc...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 110, orbit 1705 — We put water, we shampoo, we rinse, then we let it air dry… On paper, there...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 107, orbit 1658 — I’ve often been asked about my hobbies in space… Well, one of them is inven...

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Our astronaut Sophie Adenot shared this video on her social media channels with the caption: [EN] Day 106, orbit 1644 — This timelapse shows the approach and docking of the SpaceX CRS‑34 resupply...

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