Euclid Telescope Captures 26 Million Galaxies Over 10 Billion Years
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📰 The quick summary: The Euclid space telescope has captured detailed images of 26 million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history, enabling unprecedented insights into dark matter and the universe’s expansion.
📈 One key stat: The telescope captured 500 strong gravitational lensing events in just one week, providing crucial data about the distribution of dark matter in the universe.
💬 One key quote: “All of the science we designed it for is starting to roll out exactly and even better than we would have hoped,” said Prof Adam Amara, the UK Space Agency’s chief scientist.
1️⃣ The big picture: The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has achieved a major milestone in space exploration by capturing images of 26 million galaxies. These observations span an incredible 10 billion years of cosmic history and have allowed researchers to create a detailed catalog of 380,000 galaxies. The mission aims to study dark matter and dark energy, which together make up 95% of the universe but remain poorly understood. The telescope’s high-resolution images reveal galaxies merging and space being warped by gravitational forces, providing unprecedented views of cosmic phenomena.
2️⃣ Why is this good news: Scientists now have access to an extraordinary wealth of data about the fundamental nature of our universe. The telescope’s detailed observations of gravitational lensing effects offer new ways to study dark matter’s properties and distribution. The mission has already exceeded expectations in image quality and data collection. These discoveries create opportunities for understanding how dark energy drives the universe’s expansion and may lead to breakthroughs in fundamental physics.
3️⃣ What’s next: Over the next six years, Euclid plans to capture images of more than 1.5 billion galaxies. Scientists will analyze this data to reveal how dark energy influences the universe’s expansion. The research team expects to discover new categories of cosmic objects. Additionally, the precise measurements of gravitational lensing will help determine the properties and temperature of dark matter.
Read the full story here: The Guardian – Scientists hail ‘avalanche of discoveries’ from Euclid space telescope
