Euclid Telescope Reveals Unprecedented Views of the Universe

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released five unprecedented images of the universe, captured by the Euclid telescope. These images, the largest ever taken from space, include detailed views of galaxy clusters Abell 2764 and Abell 2390, the Dorado group of galaxies, the spiral galaxy NGC 6744, and the stellar nursery Messier 78. The data is expected to provide new insights into dark energy and dark matter, two of the universe's most elusive components.

The images, produced by combining data from Euclid’s VIS optical camera and the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP), are at least four times sharper than those taken by ground-based telescopes. Early findings, based on just 24 hours of observations, have been published in 10 papers on the online portal arXiv. These findings also include the discovery of over 1.5 trillion orphan stars in the Perseus galaxy cluster, providing new insights into their origins and the potential to map dark matter.