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Robert Z. Pearlman

Into the deep (field) with ESA's Euclid 'dark universe' telescope: Space photo of the day

A zoomed-in (16x) area of Euclid's Deep Field South, a mosaic captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, revealing galaxies with different shapes and colors because they have different ages and distances. (Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi )

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data on Wednesday (March 19), including a preview of its deep fields revealing hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes.

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