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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Griffin

European Space Agency releases new data that could help us understand the nature of the universe

The Cat’s Eye Nebula takes centre stage in a sparkling sea of stars and galaxies - (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi)

The European Space Agency has released the first data from its Euclid space telescope, which hopes to understand the mystery of dark energy and dark matter.

The first tranche of data shows three patches of the sky, each of which shows an array of galaxies. It shows a part of the sky that is more than 300 times the size of the Moon when it is seen from Earth.

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