Why would the sky glow red? Aurora. A solar storm in 2012, emanating mostly from active sunspot region 1402, showered particles on the Earth that excited oxygen atoms high in […]

@scanlanavia Here's more on the project by Advanced Concepts artist-in-residence https://t.co/WygXieSHqj — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

@RealJBSullivan @Jane_MacArthur @ukspace2017 @theresa_may our ESA centre in UK focusses on telecom & applications https://t.co/i3HTcfH4lz — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

Only 3 #Days2Go until deadline to sign up for #Sentinel2Go! Apply today for best #SocialSpace ever. Closes 1 Feb https://t.co/SBGNv7nOD5 pic.twitter.com/HEMLQthJ1b — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

@Moritz_Schumann @DLR_de thanks for coming from #Shanghai — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

Our week in images – incl #Soyuz, #Budapest, #Sentinel2Go, #moon https://t.co/whx85hD60b pic.twitter.com/fyzK5uvA5I — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

#OTD 29 Jan1998 launch of @CNES astronaut Léopold Eyharts on #Soyuz TM-27 to #Mir space station on 21-day Pégase mission https://t.co/X8ywP3j8t4 — ESA (@esa) January 29, 2017

Over 150 light-years across, this cosmic maelstrom of gas and dust is not too far away. It lies south of the Tarantula Nebula in our satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic […]

Hunting Earth-like planets – ESA/Euronews investigates #expoplanets (8 langs) https://t.co/eLjBfiDMHF — ESA (@esa) January 28, 2017

@Kate_Chesters you can send your question to spaceinimages@esa.int — ESA (@esa) January 28, 2017