The spectacular first images from a dark matter-hunting telescope were unveiled Tuesday, showcasing bustling galaxies, clusters of ancient stars and wispy, dreamlike stellar nurseries. The images, from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that launched into space in July, were released to great fanfare. The dramatic views are a tantalizing […]
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) 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 […]
“After a dozen years designing and developing Euclid, it is exhilarating and very moving to see these first images. But you can’t just release them to the public; it takes time to get scientific validation. We expect the first science publication in January.” Giuseppe Racca, Euclid project manager at ESA […]
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) dark universe detective, the Euclid spacecraft, is on track after locating its guiding stars, which it lost as a result of cosmic misidentification. The satellite can now begin investigating dark matter and dark energy, which are some of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Dark matter […]
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope launched from Cape Canaveral on July 1. By all accounts, the launch passed smoothly. Even when mission control lit up Euclid’s instruments and took the telescope’s first test images, everything seemed well. But as with any space mission — and, for that […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The Euclid space telescope, designed to investigate some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, has captured its first glimpses of the cosmos. The spacecraft’s two instruments took the preliminary test images, revealing […]
The British-backed Euclid space telescope has beamed back its first incredible images of distant galaxies on its mission to uncover the mysteries of the dark universe. The European space telescope, named after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, captured glittering galaxies and stars after making a million-mile journey from Earth. It was […]
The test images bristle with stars despite portraying tiny sections of space – fractions smaller than the part of the night sky occupied by the Moon Europe’s new space telescope, Euclid, has returned its first images. Engineers switched on the cameras of the €1.4bn (£1.2bn) observatory to begin a phase […]