The star-filled snapshots were taken during the space telescope's commissioning — a phase during which its powerful instruments are finely calibrated — and therefore not representative of its full potential.MAPPING THE UNIVERSE This handout photo provided courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA on Monday, July 31, 2023, shows a test photo taken during commissioning of ESA's Euclid spacecraft.
By capturing light that has taken 10 billion years to reach Earth's vicinity, the map will also offer a new view of the 13.8-billion-year-old universe's history.Its visible light camera will let it measure the shape of galaxies, while its near-infrared spectrometer and photometer — developed with the help of NASA — will allow it to measure how far away they are.