"Euclid" once more fulfills its promise. - Remarkable new images captured from outer space.
An illustrative case of "Messier 78" - a radiant star cluster encircled by star-forming interstellar dust. The spacecraft employed its infrared camera to visualize concealed locations of star formation and identified freshly born stars and planets. "Euclid" also depicted images of the galaxy "NGC 6744", the galaxy cluster "Abell 2764", and the infamous Dorado group of galaxies.
Notably, the galaxy cluster "Abell 2390", containing approximately 50,000 galaxies, piqued interest. The European Space Agency (ESA) labeled it a "stunning illustration" of a gravitational lens, which generates impressive curved arcs in the sky. The mass of the cluster distorts the light from galaxies situated behind "Abell 2390" as observed by us; this occurrence is known as the gravitational lensing effect.
Peering into the depths of the cosmos
Within 24 hours, over eleven million objects were detected in visible light and another five million in infrared, per the ESA. The photos acquired with "Euclid" are at least four times sharper than those secured by ground-based telescopes. The imagery encompasses extensive regions of the sky with unprecedented depth.
"This space telescope is expected to answer the most significant open questions in cosmology," stated Valeria Pettorino, "Euclid" project scientist at ESA. "And these first snapshots evidently indicate that 'Euclid' is well-equipped for the task."
The satellite was dispatched into space at the beginning of July 2023. ESA intends to leverage it to investigate the development of the universe throughout the last ten billion years. The objective is to gather data on billions of galaxies and create a 3D map of space. (dpa/mks)
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