A 208-Gigapixel Glimpse into The Universe | ESA Euclid Space Telescope
This will be the "first page" of the European Space Agency Euclid’s great cosmic atlas. It shows millions of stars and galaxies in pristine detail in a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic. The mosaic covers an area of the Southern Sky more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth.
Starting from a vast cosmic panorama with an estimated 14 million galaxies, a series of ever-deeper zooms brings you to a crisp view of a swirling spiral galaxy, in a final image enlarged 600 times compared to the full mosaic. Many of the 14 million galaxies in the initial vista will be used to study the hidden influence of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe.
This mosaic accounts for 1% of the area that Euclid will cover over six years, and was obtained by combining 260 observations collected in just two weeks.
This first chunk of Euclid’s survey was revealed on October 15, 2024 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy.
Video Credit & Copyright: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CEA Paris-Saclay, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration
Duration: 2 minute, 37 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 15, 2024
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