Euclid’s First Science Images

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Images of galaxies, the planets Jupiter and Saturn, the Pillars of Creation stellar nurseries. Title, News from the Universe. 

 

Euclid's First Science Images. November 16, 2023. An image of galaxies, a tiny slice of the vast universe as it existed in the distant past. 

 

Text, On November 7, the Euclid space telescope released its first full-color science images. The dark sky is replete with sparkles of light emanating from the celestial bodies. 

 

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Text, Euclid combines a wide field of view with high resolution infrared imaging, capturing more of the sky in greater detail than previous telescopes. 

 

The star cluster of stellar nurseries emerges over clouds of gas comprising a nebula. 

 

Text, Euclid's first images demonstrate that it is ready to fulfill its goal of creating a 3D map of the universe to investigate dark matter and dark energy. 

 

Together, dark matter and dark energy are estimated to make up 95 percent of the universe. 

 

A spiral galaxy illuminates the dark sky. 

 

Text, But the minimal interaction of dark matter and dark energy with things we can see have made them the biggest mysteries in modern physics. 

 

Clusters of galaxies, gas, and dust -- the twisting, threadlike structures in the cosmic web. 

 

Text, Looking both far and wide, Euclid will observe how the universe has changed over cosmic time under the influences of dark matter and dark energy. 

 

Euclid was built and is operated by the European Space Agency, with contributions from NASA.