A starfield with some visible galaxies and small streaks across the image.The first Euclid image exhibits stars, star clusters and galaxies. All stars have six spikes from diffraction effects in the telescope, though these are evident here only for the bright ones. There are also streaks from particles which hit the detectors having travelled through space.
A starfield with some visible galaxies and small streaks across the image.The first Euclid image exhibits stars, star clusters and galaxies. All stars have six spikes from diffraction effects in the telescope, though these are evident here only for the bright ones. There are also streaks from particles which hit the detectors having travelled through space. The European Space Agency released the first images taken by the Euclid space telescope's VIS instrument, which was built by an international team led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. The black and white engineering images depict stars, star clusters and galaxies, captured by the array of 36 visible light detectors in the VIS camera. Their sharp focus indicates the successful commissioning of the spacecraft's instruments. They have been released as raw images taken directly from the instrument's data and with minimal processing.
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