Dark Universe: Euclid space telescope unveils 1st colour images of distant galaxies

Astronomers have revealed the first full-colour images of the cosmos captured by the Euclid telescope on Tuesday.

Designed to unlock the secrets of dark matter and energy, the telescope will survey 36 per cent of the sky, making it the largest 3D catalogue of the universe, according to the European Space Agency.

The Euclid telescope's remarkable ability to monitor galaxies up to 10 billion light years away, has captured images across clusters of stars like Perseus and the Horsehead Nebula.

“So we've got lots of codes to decode as we work through this. But what we also know is that the dark matter and dark energy and the physics that govern those are also encoded in the shapes and the structures and the patterns that we will see with these Euclid images as we build up the survey” Carole Mundell, ESA Director of science said.

The scientists aim to understand better how galaxies form and distribute across the universe, and with these new images, they are one step closer to unraveling the cosmic web of the 'dark universe.'

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