In the Dark

Today (15th October 2024) saw the release of a sneak preview of the main survey of the European Space Agency’s Euclid survey at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan. Here’s the key image.

This image is not at full science resolution of the Euclid survey and is meant primarily as an appetizer. The resolution is11Kx4K,  and is processed by the same pipeline that produced the Euclid Early Release Observations featured here and here. You can find more detail about these images here and here. I have taken this from the latter article:

Euclid has been surveying the sky since 14 February 2024 and data processing is in full swing – the first public release of 53 deg² of science-grade Wide Survey data will take place in March next year. But how much data has Euclid already observed and how can we possibly visualize this? At a rate of 10 deg² per day, the Euclid Wide Survey has already surpassed 1000 deg², that is 5000x the apparent size of the Moon in the sky! Now ESA has put out a first set of images that allow to grasp how much data Euclid is and will be producing.

There’s also this explanatory video:

This is just taster. The main survey will take many years to complete. But it’s a start…

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