The European Space Agency released five new images from the Euclid space telescope last week, showing some of the clearest images of the cosmos captured to date.
The release, along with the first data provided by the space mission, gave researchers insight into the creation of galaxies and how the universe formed. The announcement also comes ahead of 10 scientific papers and the mission’s main survey.
“The images and associated science findings are impressively diverse in terms of the objects and distances observed,” Valeria Pettorino, ESA’s Euclid Project Scientist, said in a news release. “They include a variety of science applications, and yet represent a mere 24 hours of observations. They give just a hint of what Euclid can do.”