taken by its new space telescope, Euclid, which aims to help researchers understand the dark components that make up 95% of the universe. The telescope’s image of the Perseus Cluster , one of the most massive structures in the universe, shows 1000 of its galaxies 240 million light-years from Earth, as well as 100,000 more distant ones, some as far away as 10 billion light-years., cataloging 1 billion galaxies across one-third of the sky.
By recording the galaxies’ locations, clustering, and shapes, scientists hope for insights about two of the thorniest problems in astrophysics: the nature of dark matter, which is needed to explain the speedy rotation of galaxies, and dark energy, which accelerates the universe’s expansion.IC 342 is a nearby look-alike of the Milky Way but is obscured by dust in our galaxy. Euclid’s first look has revealed never-before-seen details.
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