Euclid's New Portrait of the Milky Way's Crowded Bulge
The ESA's Euclid Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution image of the Milky Way's galactic bulge, revealing approximately 60 million stars. This data will assist scientists in studying dark matter and dark energy, while also providing opportunities for gravitational microlensing to detect exoplanets.
Why it matters
High-resolution imaging of the galactic center provides critical data for understanding the formation of the Milky Way and discovering distant planetary systems.
The ESA's Euclid Space Telescope is built to measure the redshift of huge numbers of galaxies. The goal is to understand dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the Universe. But because the telescope features a 600 MB, wide angle camera, it can also capture dramatic images.
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