The European Space Agency released five new images from the Euclid space telescope last week, showing some of the clearest images of the cosmos captured to date.
The release, along with the first data provided by the space mission, gave researchers insights into the creation of galaxies and how the universe formed. The announcement also comes ahead of the mission’s 10 science papers and key survey.
“The images and associated science findings are extremely diverse in terms of observed objects and distances,” said Valeria Pettorino, ESA’s Euclid Project Scientist in a press release. “They encompass a variety of scientific applications, and yet represent a simple 24-hour observation. They give just a hint of what Euclid could do.”
The telescope was launched just under 11 months ago and provided its first images six months ago. The mission is planned to last another six years, providing scientists with data and observations on galaxies up to 10 billion light-years from Earth.
Here are the latest images from the Euclid Space Telescope and what ESA said the data reveal.
Dorado cluster of galaxies
Here, Euclid captures signs of galaxies evolving and merging ‘in action’, with beautiful tidal tails and shells visible as a result of ongoing interactions.
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Abell 2764
This full view of Abell 2764 and surroundings obtained thanks to Euclid, the impressively wide field of view allows scientists to determine the radius of the cluster and study its outskirts with distant galaxies still in the frame … Euclid enables (ESA) to see these galaxies when the Universe was only 700 million years old, only 5% of its current age.
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Messier 78
This stunning image shows Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a vibrant hotbed of star formation wrapped in a shroud of interstellar dust.
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Galaxy NGC 6744
(NGC 6744 is) a typical example of the type of galaxy that currently forms most of the stars in the nearby Universe, making it a wonderful archetype to study with Euclid.
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Abell 2390
Abell 2390 is a galaxy cluster, a giant conglomerate of many galaxies like the Milky Way. More than 50,000 galaxies are seen here, the distances of which can be measured thanks to these new observations. Such clusters contain large amounts of mass (up to 10 trillion times that of the Sun), most of which is in the form of dark matter, a form of matter that we cannot directly observe but is assumed to have. that together with dark energy make up the bulk. of the contents of the Universe
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