Scientists using the Euclid space telescope have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting within a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe. Torn away from their home galaxy, these orphan stars fill the space between the Perseus cluster’s galaxies with ghostly blue light. This so-called “intra-cluster”… Read More »
On Thursday, May 23, the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborators released a series of five images created by the revolutionary space telescope Euclid. The Euclid consortium previously published five images from the space telescope on November 7, 2023. Euclid has been labeled Europe’s “dark universe detective” because its wide field of view allows it… Read More »
The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday, May 23. And if the previous batch of photos is anything to go by, space fans should be in for an absolute treat. “Five new portraits of our universe were captured during Euclid’s first observations, each revealing surprising… Read More »
Planning is in full swing for the successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The new “atom smasher,” called the Future Circular Collider (FCC), will dwarf the LHC in size and power. It will smash particles with so much energy that scientists say it can investigate the most mysterious… Read More »