Euclid's Six-Gigapixel Mosaic Exposes the Milky Way's Crowded Stellar Heart

This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way's Center

The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.

Euclid's Six-Gigapixel Mosaic Exposes the Milky Way's Crowded Stellar Heart

Astronomers just received the largest and sharpest visible-light portrait ever assembled of the Milky Way’s central bulge. The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope produced this six-gigapixel mosaic during a single day of observations in March 2025, packing more than sixty million stars into one frame along with dark dust clouds and pockets where new stars [...]