Stefan

@lenshunter.bsky.social

🥁🥁🥁 New Euclid image coming  In 1995, astronomers turned Hubble to a seemingly empty patch of sky. The now famous Hubble Deep Field turned back with 3000 galaxies. Now, astronomers have done the opposite.  🔭 🧪☄️ 1/2

The Hubble Deep Field shows a stepped, staircase-shaped frame filled with many galaxies of different shapes and colours, scattered across a deep black background. Credit: R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA/ESA

No less than 60 million stars in one image. It's possible thanks to ESA's Euclid mission. For just one day, Euclid turned its gaze to the crowded heart of the Milky Way and captured the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light. Let's dive deeper 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/8

A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.

Helft uns bei der Jagd nach Anzeichen von Raumzeit‑Krümmung! 🔎 Macht mit bei „Euclid Space Warps“ auf Zooniverse und sucht nach starken Gravitationslinsen in noch nie zuvor gesehenen Bildern von unserem Detektiv fürs Dunkle Universum. 🕵️ 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · 4mo ago

Help us hunt for signs of spacetime warping! 🔎 Join Euclid Space Warps on @zooniverse.bsky.social and search for strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen images from our Dark Universe detective 🕵️ 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 #CitizenScience

A collage of fourteen by eight squares containing examples of gravitational lenses. Each example typically comprises a bright centre with smears of stars in an arc or multiple arcs around it as a result of light travelling towards Euclid from distant galaxies being bent and distorted by normal and dark matter in the foreground. In some rare cases the smearing is in a complete ring, creating a so-called Einstein Ring.