First Piece of Cosmic Map

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Video imagery: Euclid first mosaic survey image: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CEA Paris-Saclay, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration

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Telescope pictures of phenomena in space, including galaxies, nebula, and planets. Text: News from the universe. 

 

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November 1, 2024. First piece of cosmic map. An oval-shaped picture appears, dark blue along the top and bottom and lighter blue and white in the center, with cloud-like formations extending out from the central line. 

 

Text: The Euclid mission has released the first piece of a huge cosmic atlas scientists have planned. A small sliver comes out of the background oval image and zooms in. The background image fades to black. Text: The first patch of sky is a mosaic of 260 separate observations taken over two weeks, amounting to 208 giga-pixels. The zoomed image has rectangular, pixelated edges and a few missing pieces, also with rectangular edges. Text: The billions of stars and galaxies captured here are only 1 percent of the survey Euclid will conduct over six years. The image zooms in and it becomes clear that even the lighter spots are dots from far away stars and galaxies, not spaces of darkness. Text: Eventually, it will be the largest 3D cosmic map ever made, covering a distance of 10 billion light-years. Scientists will use Euclid's detailed 3D map of the sky to investigate cosmic mysteries, including dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe. This news was brought to you in part by the European Space Agency. 

 

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