ESA’s Euclid telescope maps over 900 million galaxies

PARIS: The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope’s mission to map the universe’s large-scale structure, including observations of more than 900 million galaxies, as scientists investigate the puzzling cosmic components dark matter and dark energy. The data unveiled on Thursday covered a survey of the sky equal to about 9,500 times the size of the moon as viewed from Earth. The mission’s goal is to complete the largest-ever three-di

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