Moon rises over the city hall of Östersund, Sweden

The moon rises over the city hall of Östersund, Sweden in this image taken by Göran Strand. Strand on Oct. 28, 2013. 

Credit: Göran Strand

Aurora Borealis over Sweden - Video

Photographer Chad Blakley and video editor Tom Malkowicz have outdone themselves in a compilation of Northern Lights from 2012 and 2013. 

Some of the sequences were reproduced to deliver a near 'just like you were there' real-time feel.

Credit: Chad Blakley and Tom Malkowicz

Art Deco Swedish Poster

To see more of these wonderful old Swedish Deco posters click here

ESA Education: Student teams Prepare upcoming REXUS Launch

Ten student teams from ESA's Member and Cooperating States have been selected by a panel of experts from ESA, the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), SSC and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to fly their experiments on future sounding rocket and balloon campaigns.

The teams selected for the REXUS 13/14 (Rocket Experiments for University Students) are:

• CAESAR (Switzerland): Capillarity-based Experiment for Spatial Advanced Research - Investigation into the behaviour of liquids under high Bond numbers, using propellant management devices.
• Gekko (Hungary): Measurement of the variation in electric conductivity with altitude.
• MUSCAT (Sweden): Multiple Spheres for Characterisation of Atmospheric Temperature - Measurement of atmospheric temperatures and horizontal winds in the mesosphere.
• PoleCATS (United Kingdom): Polar test of the Conceptual And Tiny Spectrometer - Demonstration of conceptual space plasma instrumentation to sample plasma energy distributions in upper atmosphere.
• SOLAR (Sweden): Soldering Alloys in Reduced gravity - Studying the effects of reduced gravity on soldering in a low pressure environment.
• StrathSat-R (United Kingdom): Investigation into the use of two Cubesat-based deployable inflatable structures including a solar sail and a dynamic structure that adapts to varying conditions.

Aurora Borealis from Abisko, Sweden

These fantastic live images of the Aurora Borealis are from Abisko, Sweden

ESA Observing the Earth from Space: Plankton Bloom arrives in Scandinavia

ESA - Observing the Earth - Earth from Space: Plankton arrives in Scandinavia

Envisat captures a crescent-shaped string of plankton in the North Sea weaving through the Scandinavian region.

Norway (left) and Sweden (right), part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, are visible at the top, and Denmark is at bottom right.

The emerald green lake seen in Sweden is Vänern, the country’s largest.

The green water around Denmark is due to sediments being transported in the water. Also visible (image centre) is Norway’s second largest fjord, Hardangerfjord. Envisat's MERIS acquired this image on 3 May 2010 at a resolution of 300 m.

Credits: ESA