Euclid Captures Most Detailed Visible-Light Image Ever Taken of Milky Way’s Core
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Euclid Captures Most Detailed Visible-Light Image Ever Taken of Milky Way’s Core
The Largest, Most Detailed Image of the Milky Way’s ‘Heart’ Shows 60 Million Stars
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ESA’s Euclid space telescope mapped more than 60 million stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge, producing the largest high-resolution visible-light portrait ever of our Galaxy’s crowded heart and opening a new window on alien worlds.
This photo of the Milky Way Galaxy’s center was taken on March 23, 2025 by ESA’s Euclid space telescope. Image credit: ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA / CFHT / J.-C. “Designed to observe billions of faraway galaxies, the space telescope’s visible light camera is sensitive enough to tell apart individual stars in our super-crowded galactic bulge, without being blinded,” members of the Euclid team said in a statement.
“This rare ability is crucial for what scientists want to use this image for: studying planets around other stars using a special technique called microlensing.” Euclid produced this enormous photo in just about 26 hours on March 23 and 24, 2025. The telescope captured more than 60 million stars, along with nebulae and star clusters. “It’s a mosaic of nine ‘pointings’ from its visible light camera, with each pointing covering a patch of the sky larger than the full Moon,” the astronomers said.
“For comparison, Euclid’s sharpness and sensitivity in visible light is similar to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s wide field camera.” “But each pointing that Euclid captures in a few hours spans an area 270 times larger than Hubble’s field of view.”
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Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit WhatsApp Flipboard Bluesky Email Copy Link Home → Space → Astronomy The dark-universe telescope turned inward and caught 60 million stars. Euclid has taken the largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s center in visible light, capturing more than 60 million stars in just over a day. The image gives astronomers something they have never had at this scale: a clean, early look at the same stars NASA’s Roman telescope will soon monitor for hidden planets.
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