The Guardian
The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Astronomers took the snapshot of the stars in March last year after pointing Euclid at the centre of the Milky Way for 26 hours of observations. The image is a mosaic of nine “pointings” taken with the probe’s visible light camera. Each pointing covers an area of the sky larger than the full moon.
The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Astronomers took the snapshot of the stars in March last year after pointing Euclid at the centre of the Milky Way for 26 hours of observations. The image is a mosaic of nine “pointings” taken with the probe’s visible light camera. Each pointing covers an area of the sky larger than the full moon.