ScienceThe GuardianEuropean survey reveals 900m galaxies - and possibly secrets of ‘dark universe’
The European Space Agency's Euclid mission has released its first major data drop, mapping over 900 million galaxies in the highest-resolution cosmic survey ever made.
Unprecedented view of cosmos provided by Euclid mission throws up many more cases of gravitational lensing
The Euclid space mission released its first major dataset, covering about 14 per cent of the sky it will eventually map and capturing over 900 million galaxies.
The data also includes around 15,000 potential cases of strong gravitational lensing, a phenomenon significantly boosted by dark matter that could help scientists test theories about its nature.
Researchers hope Euclid will eventually shed light on dark energy and dark matter, which are thought to make up roughly 95 per cent of the universe.
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