Interestingly, even though the light took 10 billion years to reach us, the galaxies that produced it are now much further away from us than 10 billion light years due to the expansion of the...
Interestingly, even though the light took 10 billion years to reach us, the galaxies that produced it are now much further away from us than 10 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe. We see their light from a time when we were much closer together.
Stunning first images of ESA's telescope 'Euclid', which has the capacity to create unbelievably sharp and detailed images across a large part of the sky. Over the next years Euclid's mission is...
Stunning first images of ESA's telescope 'Euclid', which has the capacity to create unbelievably sharp and detailed images across a large part of the sky. Over the next years Euclid's mission is to investigate how dark matter and dark energy have made our Universe look like it does today.
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"Today, ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky, and looking so far into the distant Universe. These five images illustrate Euclid's full potential; they show that the telescope is ready to create the most extensive 3D map of the Universe yet, to uncover some of its hidden secrets."
There sure is a lot of costly hardware out at L2 these days! Gaia, Webb, and now Euclid, and Roman and PLATO before the end of the decade. I'm excited to see how things change when all the new...
There sure is a lot of costly hardware out at L2 these days! Gaia, Webb, and now Euclid, and Roman and PLATO before the end of the decade. I'm excited to see how things change when all the new heavy launch capabilities finally come online. Starship could effectively double the mass we can send to L2 – that's a really big deal for space telescopes.
Interestingly, even though the light took 10 billion years to reach us, the galaxies that produced it are now much further away from us than 10 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe. We see their light from a time when we were much closer together.
Stunning first images of ESA's telescope 'Euclid', which has the capacity to create unbelievably sharp and detailed images across a large part of the sky. Over the next years Euclid's mission is to investigate how dark matter and dark energy have made our Universe look like it does today.
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That reflection nebula NGC 2023 just under the Horsehead is STUNNING in this photo.
There sure is a lot of costly hardware out at L2 these days! Gaia, Webb, and now Euclid, and Roman and PLATO before the end of the decade. I'm excited to see how things change when all the new heavy launch capabilities finally come online. Starship could effectively double the mass we can send to L2 – that's a really big deal for space telescopes.