This space telescope is mapping the Universe! 🌌
On 19 March 2025, our Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, revealing an astonishing view of the cosmic web.
With just one scan of its deep fields, Euclid has already detected 26 million galaxies, some as far as 10.5 billion light-years away! This is just a preview of what’s to come, as Euclid will continue mapping the Universe in unprecedented detail.
What’s in this first release?
– Three vast mosaics covering 63 square degrees of the sky
– A catalogue of 380 000 galaxies, classified with AI + citizen scientists
– 500 new gravitational lens candidates, almost all never seen before
– The first hints of Euclid’s full cosmic atlas, which will eventually cover one-third of the sky
This data is a huge leap forward in understanding how galaxies are distributed across the Universe and how dark matter and dark energy shape the cosmos.
Over the next six years, Euclid will revisit these deep fields 30 to 52 times, uncovering billions of galaxies and pushing the astrophysics’ boundaries.
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📸 ESA /Euclid/Euclid Consortium/@NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi
Euclid Deep Field South, 70x zoom: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi
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This is so cool!!!
It's time to visit these galaxies and see if anyone is there. This endeavour can not be more than ten years away.
Amazing to think our own galaxy is so huge that we will never go beyond it. And then there are, what, five to ten trillion more? Mind boggling.
❤😮😊woah,.
C'est tellement beau ❤
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Despite all this knowledge about the vastness of the cosmos and the planet being less than a speck or becoming invisible in the bigger picture yet man is still emotional about his religion to the extent of denoting a place or spot on the ‘less than a speck’ earth as holy and where the universal intelligence can be worshipped in the purest form.
Que maravilla ❤!!
That's just about what I want to see. Thanks!
Indubitavelmente divinal!
Super Job Euclid team . Wow to think 3 mapped patches hold trillions of galaxies
Wunderbar was Gott erschaffen hat ❤
Very nice, thanks e😂