Have you ever seen the aurora? A beautiful curtain of rippling light in the night sky, it is…
In the summer of 2000, four identical Cluster spacecraft were launched into highly elongated polar orbits which took…
Would you like to see your own space artwork on the ESA Kids site? Here’s your chance! Every…
One of the longest space missions ever made came to an end on 30 June 2009 when the…
The Sun is our nearest star. The Sun provides us with light and heat. It also gives out…
An ESA/NASA spacecraft called SOHO has been constantly watching the Sun since 1996. SOHO is stationed 1.5 million…
People travel long distances to see eclipses of the Sun. They only take place at times of new…
Special instruments known as spectrographs tell us that the Sun is made almost entirely of two gases, hydrogen…
