BR-247

SpaceScienc

eforEurope2

015-2025

Cosmic Vision

BR-247

October 2005

Space Science

for Europe 2015-2025

BR-247 ‘Cosmic Vision’

Prepared by:

Giovanni Bignami, Peter Cargill, Bernard

Schutz and Catherine Turon on behalf of
the Science advisory structure of ESA, and
by the Executive of the Science

Directorate, supported by Nigel Calder

Published by:

ESA Publications Division, ESTEC, PO Box

299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Editor/Design:

Andrew Wilson

Layout:

Jules Perel

ISSN: 0250-1589
ISBN: 92-9092-489-6
Price: EUR 10
Printed in The Netherlands

Cover

A fresco painted 1509-1511 by Raphael (1483-1520) in the
Vatican (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici) perhaps
depicts the embodiment of Astronomy.
(Copyright Photo SCALA, Florence)

Replacing the original astronomical globe is Mars viewed by
the High Resolution Stereo Camera (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin,
G. Neukum) carried by the ESA Mars Express spacecraft,
merging into an image (G. Hasinger, Astrophysikalisches
Institute, Potsdam) of X-ray sources in the Lockman Hole made
using the Newton X-ray Observatory spacecraft.

Chapter divider
Artist's impression of a quasar located in a primieval galaxy a
few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

(ESA/W. Freudling, ST-ECF/ESO)