The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of stars and galaxies represent just 1% of the 3D map the mission will create.

The new image, captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, shows in detail how the dark ...

The first images captured by a powerful space telescope designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the “dark side” of the universe have been revealed. Launched by the European Space Agency ...

Share or comment on this article: The largest 3D map of the universe EVER made: First breathtaking images from Euclid's 'cosmic atlas' are revealed - as scientists stitch together 14 million galaxies ...

The 208-gigapixel image showcases an area of the southern sky about 500 times the area of the full Moon, as seen between March 25, 2024 and April 8, 2024. The image mosaic is just 1% of the wide ...

Ancient cosmic light that has uniformly filled the universe since around 400,000 years after the Big Bang could act like a treasure map that guides scientists to the secrets of dark matter.

The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of stars and galaxies represent just 1% of the 3D map the mission will create.

Astronomers have unveiled an image of a giant cloud of space gas and dust that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula ...

Astronomers have unveiled an image of a giant cloud of space gas and dust that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, the ...