60 Million Stars: Euclid Space Telescope Snaps the Largest-Ever Close-up Photo of the Milky Way's Crowded Heart
- On Wednesday, the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope captured the most detailed image of the Milky Way's core, revealing more than 60 million stars crowded in the galaxy's center.
- Astronomers pointed Euclid at the galaxy's center to utilize microlensing, a technique where foreground stars act as cosmic magnifying glasses to detect planets orbiting distant stars.
- Completed in 26 hours across nine pointings of the telescope's visible-light camera, the mosaic covers an area 270 times larger than the veteran Hubble space telescope can manage.
- The image includes 51 known planetary systems and will assist NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope with future planet-hunting observations, according to postdoctoral fellow Natalia Rektsini at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics.
- Launched on July 1, 2023 for a $1.5 billion mission, the observatory will monitor galaxies and clusters dating back 10 billion years, helping scientists investigate dark matter and dark energy mysteries.
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Milky Way's Heart Shines Like a Diamond in Record-Breaking New Photos
The Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's crowded heart, a dazzling image packed with 60 million stars, the European Space Agency said Wednesday.
The image obtained is fascinating. It would seem to see parietal paintings, or gold ores.
According to the European Space Agency, this is the largest and most detailed photo of the heart of our galaxy.
This is the largest and most detailed image of our Milky Way — with over 60 million stars and 50 exoplanet systems
In 2025, the European Space Agency dark universe detective spacecraft Euclid turned its attention to the heart of the Milky Way for just 26 hours. In just over one day, Euclid was able to create the largest and most detailed photo of this region of our galaxy ever made.The image, packed with 60 million stars, could help scientists hunt for extrasolar planets, exoplanets, in this region known as the galactic bulge. Euclid is designed to study dar…
Scientists reveal millions of stars in most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre ever
A space telescope originally designed to probe the universe's dark forces has produced the most detailed and expansive image ever captured of visible light emanating from the Milky Way's core.The European Space Agency's Euclid probe photographed more than 60 million individual stars in the densely packed galactic bulge, a region where most instruments struggle to distinguish separate celestial bodies.Scientists have hailed the remarkable snapsho…
The European space telescope Euclid has taken the largest and most detailed photo to date of the center of our Milky Way. The photo shows more than 60 million stars. Scientists can use this to discover new exoplanets.
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