The European Space Agency released photos taken by its Euclid space telescope, releasing images of a stellar nursery and distant star clusters, on Thursday.
The five images were released almost one year into the Euclid space telescope’s lifespan, which was launched on July 1, 2023, as part of a six-year mission
“Euclid is a unique, ground-breaking mission, and these are the first datasets to be made public — it’s an important milestone,” Valeria Pettorino, ESA’s Euclid Project scientist,. “The images and associated science findings are impressively diverse in terms of the objects and distances observed. They include a variety of science applications, and yet represent a mere 24 hours of observations. They give just a hint of what Euclid can do.
“Euclid peered deep into this nursery using its infrared camera, exposing hidden regions of star formation for the first time, mapping its complex filaments of gas and dust in unprecedented detail, and uncovering newly formed stars and planets,” the release said of the photo.The space telescope was named after Euclid, a Greek mathematician who lived in about 300 B.C.
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