ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite was launched in August 2018 on a trailblazing mission to show how profiling Earth’s winds from space can improve weather forecasts and climate models. Marking the end of Aeolus’ remarkable mission, ESA worked with composer Jamie Perera to create a woodwind piece from data that spanned the lifetime of the satell…

Euclid Operations Director, Andreas Rudolph, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's cosmic detective is launched from Cape Canaveral on 1 July, to discover the secrets of the dark Universe.Mission Control is GO for launch.Di European Space Agency

Listen to the eerie sound of a boom on board ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft deploying in space during commissioning of the spacecraft in May 2023. Tip: use headphones or surround speakers for the best experience – the forward and backward wobbles of the boom come through the left and right channels. The vibration signal used to…

Juice Operations Director, Andrea Accomazzo, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer lifts-off on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou on 14 April.Mission Control is GO for launch.Di European Space Agency

One year ago, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, causing widespread destruction to the Pacific Island Nation of Tonga. It spewed volcanic material up to 58 km into the atmosphere, brought a nearly 15 m tsunami that crashed ashore, destroying villages, and created a sonic boom that rippled around the world – twice. Even one year on, inte…

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty sc…

Voice of Alexander Schmid, Eumetsat Programme ManagerDi European Space Agency

Voice of Donny Aminou, MTG Payload ManagerDi European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESADi European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESADi European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesDi European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESADi European Space Agency

Voice of Alexander Schmid, Eumetsat Programme ManagerDi European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesDi European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesDi European Space Agency

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

One of the surprising discoveries coming out of Gaia data release 3, is that Gaia is able to detect starquakes – tiny motions on the surface of a star – that change the shapes of stars, something the observatory was not originally built for.Previously, Gaia already found radial oscillations that cause stars to swell and shrink periodically, while k…

We talk to Julia Schwartz and Klaus Merz, experts in flight dynamics and space debris, about Solar Orbiter's upcoming risky Earth flyby.On 27 Nov, it will pass almost as close as the International Space Station in one of the closest flybys on record, which will see the spacecraft pass through two regions of hazardous debris.Could Solar Orbiter swer…

The joint ESA/Jaxa BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the first time on 1 October 2021, capturing data with the magnetometer onboard ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter. A sonification of the magnetic field data is presented here. Two synthesizers can be heard, which are controlled by three characteristics of the magnetic field. The first synthe…