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Euclid releases first major survey data covering 900 million galaxies

Working on the strong gravitational lens catalogue

The European Space Agency released 13 months of observations from its Euclid space telescope on Nov. 12. The dataset covers 1,900 square degrees of sky and contains more than 900 million galaxies, about 15,000 candidate gravitational lenses and 60 million quasar candidates.

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"Gravitational lenses are nature's own weighing scales."

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"How strongly the light is bent tells us how much matter a galaxy contains, including invisible components like dark matter."

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