The Euclid Space Telescope has sent the first color images from the cosmos to Earth. They show the great potential of the mission, which also involves Swiss institutions, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday.
“It is incredibly exciting to see the first photos,” Julian Adamek from the University of Zurich (UZH) told the Keystone-SDA news agency. The researcher has been working on the Euclid mission for more than ten years. “You see for the first time what the instruments can do.”
Never before has a telescope been able to produce such sharp astronomical images over such a large part of the sky, the ESA said.
With the telescope, ESA wants to create the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe to date and investigate its evolution over the past ten billion years. The probe was launched into space in July.
In addition to UZH, the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and the University of Geneva are also involved in Euclid from Switzerland. (sda)
Source: Blick
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