Russian spacewalkers complete 7 hour EVA

(Oleg waving to the cameras – Photo Credit: NASATV)

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev have wrapped up their 7 hour and 23 minute spacewalk after a series of intense and exhausting installation and experiment tasks outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

ESO flatten mountain to make room for European Extremely Large Telescope

(The explosion – Photo Credit: Daily Mail)

The European Southern Observatory have taken their first big step in building the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) by blowing up the top of a mountain in Chile.

Hubble reveals small dwarf galaxies massively contributed to formation of our universe’s stars

(Image Credit: NASA and ESA)

New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have shown that small dwarf galaxies are responsible for forming a large proportion of the universe’s stars.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bounces radio signal off Titan

(False colour image of Titan – Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho)

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully performed a close flyby of Titan, Saturn’s moon. In the process, the craft bounced signals off Titan to reveal important details about its surface.

Russian cosmonauts prepare for spacewalk

(Skvortsov and Artemyev – Photo Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos)

Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov will exit the International Space Station at 1:50pm GMT today (19th June) for a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk (EVA).

Image of the Day: 19/6/14

(Photo Credit: Alexander Gerst)

Here are the dunes in the Sahara desert as seen by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, who is currently on board the International Space Station.

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