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Euclid releases first major survey data covering 900 million galaxies

Leading the mission's science programme through its data releases

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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"This is a change in scale from Euclid's previous releases, which included a few days of observations over around 60 deg² of sky."

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"Euclid will not just take images of galaxies in the sky, in two dimensions, but will also measure their distance, the third dimension."

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