Vast data dump from Euclid space telescope reveals stunning galaxies
ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Bertin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency has just released a vast batch of observations of the sky captured by the Euclid space telescope.
ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Bertin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency has just released a vast batch of observations of the sky captured by the Euclid space telescope. rolled out in 2023, the telescope is currently on a six-year mission to image about one-third of the sky to build the most detailed 3D map of the cosmos ever created . The latest observations – catchily titled DR1-Foundation – cover an area of the sky as big as 9500 full moons. The collection includes 900 million galaxies. The mosaic of 740 images at the top of the article, collected in autumn 2024 and spring 2025, covers 367 square degrees of the northern sky. At full resolution, this snapshot runs to 500 gigapixels.
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