Euclid Space Telescope Reveals Stunning Images from it's First 24 hours of observations

ESA's Euclid Space Telescope launched 1 July 2023 and like JWST it's currently orbiting the Lagrange point 2 , this week ESA released Euclid's first science images.

This stunning image of the star nursery Messier 78, located 1,300 light-years away within the constellation Orion, shows stars forming between vibrant tendrils of gas and dust. More than 300,000 new objects were revealed by Euclid's powerful infrared eye in this image, including baby stars and ejected rogue planets.

As stunning as Messier 78 is this is my favourite , a spiral Galaxy much like the Milky Way with a small previously undetected satellite Galaxy much like our own Large Magellanic Cloud.

This image shows the massive spiral galaxy NGC 6744, situated 30 million light-years away within the Local Group — the super-group of more than 20 tight-knit galaxies to which the Milky Way belongs. Euclid's image captured a previously undetected dwarf galaxy orbiting its larger neighbor. By studying this region, scientists hope to understand how stars form within galaxies and discover the role that spiral structures play in this process.

There are 3 more images in the link , happy to welcome Euclid to our telescope family.

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Link not working but loving the photos you posted!

Love that dusty nebula image. Here's the original source: www.esa.int...