The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has released five of its first science images, including an iconic nebula and glistening galaxies
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has sent back its first science images, and they are absolutely stunning. Each of the five images of sparkling cosmic objects will eventually be a part of Euclid’s 3D map of the cosmos, with the ultimate goal of understanding the dark components of our universe.on 1 July and is now parked about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.
and dark energy on cosmic scales and how that might deviate from our current understanding of physics and cosmology.ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; J.-C. Cuillandre , G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOare invisible, hence the moniker “dark”, so the only way to trace their behaviour is through images of visible objects like the ones that Euclid has now released. The first of these images shows the Horsehead Nebula, which lies 1375 light-years from Earth in the Orion constellation.
On the right is the irregular galaxy NGC 6822, which is representative of a type of galaxy that was common inMany of these smaller galaxies, with less clear structure, have merged over time to create more massive galaxies like the Milky Way or the Hidden Galaxy. Over the course of its mission, Euclid will observe billions of galaxies, marking each one’s place in the greater cosmic web.ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; J.-C. Cuillandre , G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.
While this image may appear to be an irregular galaxy or a globular cluster at first glance, it actually shows more than 100,000 galaxies. About 1000 of them, in the foreground of the image, belong to the . Many of them have never been spotted before. Such enormous structures are only possible because of the effects of dark matter, so observations like this one will be crucial to figuring out its true nature.
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