Using the Euclid Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a whopping 1.5 trillion orphan stars floating through a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the cosmos. These orphan stars, torn from their own galaxies, fill the space between the galaxies of the Perseus cluster with ghostly blue light. This so-called … Read more
On Thursday (May 23), the European Space Agency (ESA) and its collaborators released a series of five images taken by the revolutionary Euclid space telescope. The Euclid consortium had previously released five images from the space telescope on November 7, 2023. Euclid has been called Europe’s ‘detective of the dark universe’ because its wide field … Read more
At first glance, the image doesn’t look like much: a few small bright yellow stars among fainter white stars. And in the middle a spot that looks like a collection of stars. But zooming in reveals a completely different story. That spot does not consist of stars at all, but of dozens and dozens of … Read more
Editor’s note: The new Euclid Telescope images were released at 5 a.m. EDT (12 p.m. CEST). You can view the five new views of the cosmos here in our image release story. The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid Space Telescope today (May 23). And if the previous set … Read more