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 »
At first glance, the image doesn’t look like much: a few patches of bright yellow stars among fainter white stars. There is a spot in the middle that looks like a collection of stars. But zooming in reveals a completely different story. This blob is not stars at all, but dozens upon dozens of galaxies.… Read More »
A mind-boggling number of glowing galaxies, a purple and orange chamber of stars and a spiral galaxy that resembles the Milky Way: new images emerged from Europe’s Euclid space telescope on Thursday. HE second set of pictures It has been published by the European Space Agency since Euclid launched its first mission last year to… 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 »