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Euclid offers best-ever 3D map of the universe to date

Best-ever 3D map of the universe to date
As part of its DR1 Foundation data release, Euclid observed Abell 3128, a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located about 800 million light-years away from us. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin

The Euclid Consortium and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the first major batch of data from the Euclid space telescope. This release, which captures light from more than a billion objects and covers an area of sky equivalent to 9,500 full moons, lays the foundation for Europe’s dark universe detective’s largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos. Several German research facilities play crucial roles in the Euclid mission’s success.

The new data release, named DR1 Foundation, comprises some 13 months of observations and marks the ...

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