Talk about being moved by Star.
The amazing “first part” of a detailed map of the universe, photographed by the super-powerful Euclid Space Telescope, has finally been unearthed in “pristine detail”.
Filled with the dazzling light of more than a million stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency on Wednesday released stunning images that show how deep space and our Milky Way galaxy are organized.
The panoramic mosaic, magnified 600 times, highlights the structure of the spiral galaxy, along with Euclid’s 260 sightings from late March to early April.
It covers 132 square degrees of the southern sky, an area more than 500 times the area of the Moon.
Euclidean scientist Valeria Pettorino said the document is “packed with a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to describe the universe.”
When you zoom in, you can see in sharp detail, especially the dim clouds, even among the stars of the Milky Way. They are called “galactic cirrus clouds” because they remind us of the shape of clouds in our own atmosphere.
Telescopes have observed that they glow in the far infrared because they reflect other bright light sources in the galaxy.
This awe-inspiring image is just 1% of the 3D map that the Euclid spacecraft will be rendering over six years when it launches in July 2023.
The goal is to create the most detailed map ever of the “Great Cosmic Atlas,” which spans more than 10 billion light years, ESA said.
Last year, the telescope highlighted the surprising dark matter that makes up much of the universe in a similar way.
Already, 12% of the wider map has been observed, with new analyzes covering particularly deep reaches of the universe expected to be published in 2025, and cosmological data to be published in 2026. .
