The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a 208 billion pixel wide image of the universe from the Euclid Space Telescope, showing details of more than 100 million stars and galaxies.
The images were compiled from more than 260 studies in the visible and infrared wavelengths. Between March 25 – April 8, with a set of images from the Euclid camera released this time. It takes up 500 times more space than the full moon in the sky.
The images, however, represent only 1% of the Euclid telescope’s survey area over the next six years, which aims to create a 3D map of the universe to study the size, speed and motion of galaxies Be part of the study of dark matter and dark energy in the universe.
NASA, the organization involved in developing the NISP instrument to study the near-infrared (Near-infrared) universe on the Euclid telescope, said that there were as many as 14 million galaxies in the -images. which could be used to study the effect of dark energy on the universe
Jason Rhodes, a cosmologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: “We’ve seen beautiful, sharp images of objects from the Euclid telescope that give us an insight into the vastness of the sky that the telescope surveys. so we can precisely measure the billions of galaxies.”
Even though it is a wide picture of the universe But with a high resolution of more than 208 billion pixels, together with the performance of NISP and VIS instruments in more than 260 surveys, astronomers were able to detail many of the objects in the explore this image.
The photos were first revealed at the event. International Astronautical Congress 2024 in Milan, Italy, with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Scientific Director Carole Mundell.
Image: ESA / Euclid / Euclid / NASA Consortium
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