Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.
The European Space Agency will release five new images from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday . And, well, if the previous set of pictures is anything to go by — space fans should be in for an absolute treat.The new images will be revealed at 05:00 EDT and will be accompanied by an incredible 10 science papers.
A Euclid image showing 1,000 galaxies belonging to the Perseus Cluster, and more than 100,000 additional galaxies further away in the background, each containing up to hundreds of billions of stars.Just above is one of the first images the public saw from the Euclid telescope. It's a snapshot showing 1,000 galaxies or so, all belonging to the. Located around 240 million light-years away from Earth, this cluster is one of the largest structures in the known universe.
NGC 6397 is the second closest globular cluster to Earth at just around 7,800 light-years away. Globular clusters like NGC 6397 orbit the disk of the Milky Way and can contain clues regarding either the evolution of our galaxy, or at least of other galaxies such structures are found within.
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