Euclid's observations take shape. Because dark matter's mass dominates galaxies, it plays a vital role in galactic evolution and, ultimately, the shapes these galaxies take.

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. SCIENCE; ... Euclid's goal is to map the shapes, sizes, ...

A zoomed-in (16x) area of Euclid's Deep Field South, a mosaic captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, revealing galaxies with different shapes and colors because they have ...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...

The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one third of the entire sky, observing billions of galaxies over a span of six years to gather data about the universe’s dark side.

This image shows examples of galaxies in different shapes, all captured by Euclid during its first observations of the Deep Field areas.As part of the data release, a detailed catalogue of more ...

In the coming years, Euclid will measure the distorted shapes of billions of galaxies over 10 billion years of cosmic history, thus providing a 3D view of the distribution of dark matter in our ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The observatory just completed the first piece.

The survey data, released March 19, includes initial scans of three regions that Euclid will observe regularly, as well as detailed classifications of more than 380,000 galaxies — a mere 0.4% of ...

ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, ... "It looks to us like a ring because light is focused at that place in the shape of a ring," Ishak tells NPR.