By zooming in very deeply, one can see the complex structure of a spiral galaxy or two galaxies interacting with each other.
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One hundred million stars and galaxies at a glance: the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Tuesday, October 15 The first part of the universe map Conducted by the Euclid Telescope to uncover the mystery of dark matter.
On the narrow strip of deep black, dotted with sparkling dots, stretch the vaporous blue clouds: “Hungarian cirrus”, A mixture of dust and gas “From it new stars will be formed.” Bruno Altieri, a scientist at the European Space Agency and responsible for the Euclid archive, explains to AFP. By zooming in very deeply, one can see the complex structure of a spiral galaxy or two galaxies interacting with each other.
“In this image alone, there are literally tens of millions of galaxies, and thanks to it we will be able to produce statistics about where certain types of galaxies are relative to others, how they evolve over time, and why they have not formed stars for several billion years…”“, explains Bruno Altieri.
This picture “Amazing” It is only the first piece (1%) of the map that, in six years, “It will reveal more than a third of the sky.” Valeria Petorino, ESA's Euclid project scientist, confirms in a press release published on Wednesday. It is a 208 gigapixel mosaic, produced from 260 observations made by Euclid in just two weeks, between March 25 and April 8.
