Image shows an area of a patch of sky called the Deep Field South observed by the Euclid space telescope, in this handout released by the European Space Agency on March 19, 2025. Various huge galaxy clusters are visible in this image, as well as intra-cluster light and gravitational lenses. The cluster near the center is called J041110.98-481939.3, and is located almost 6 billion light-years away. European Space Agency(ESA)/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) - The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale structure in order to better understand the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter.
Scientists unveiled on Wednesday Euclid's observations of three patches of the sky populated by a panoply of galaxies. The data covered a survey of the sky equal to more than 300 times the size of the moon as viewed from Earth - a step toward the Euclid mission's goal of fashioning a grand atlas of the cosmos in exquisite detail, spanning more than a third of the sky.
