Euclid Telescope Captures 60 Million Stars at the Milky Way's Heart
The Euclid space telescope has imaged the Milky Way's center in extraordinary detail, revealing more than 60 million stars in a single view.
A deep-space telescope on a grand mission to make the largest-ever 3D map of the universe has peered into the star-filled heart of the Milky Way. In the new observations, shared Wednesday (June 24), the Euclid space telescope imaged the center of the Milky Way in extraordinary detail, revealing more than 60 million stars crowded into the galaxy’s core.
The image from the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft will help astronomers confirm newfound exoplanets and use changes in starlight to measure those planets’ masses as they orbit their parent stars, according to ESA scientists.