Five astonishing astronomical images from deep space are now available thanks to #EUCLID: the sharpest ever seen over such a large area of the Universe.
OHB Italia S.p.A. is proud to highlight that such outcome was acquired also thanks to the #ElectronicUnits provided for the instruments #VISand #NISP on behalf of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. OHB Italia developed the electronics for the CDPU (Control & Data Processing Unit) of the VIS and the DPU/DCU (Data Processing Unit/Detector Control Unit) of the NISP.
EUCLID is the second European Space Agency – ESA medium-class astronomy and astrophysics mission, with the main target to explore the “#DarkUniverse” through the observation of billions of galaxies. And now this is a reality.
IMAGE LEGEND
- The #PerseusCluster of Galaxies (first image in the upper left corner).
This incredible snapshot is a revolution in astronomy. The image shows 1.000 galaxies belonging to the Perseus cluster and more than 100.000 additional galaxies further away in the background. Many of these faint galaxies have never been seen before. Some of them are so far that their light took 10 billion years to reach us. Perseus is one of the most massive structures, located “only” 240 million light-years from the Earth. - The #HorseheadNebula (the lower left image).
Horsehead Nebula is also known as Barnard 33 and it is part of the #OrionConstellation. Inside this “stellar nursery” observation, scientists hope to find many faint and never-before-seen planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young small stars. - #NGC6822 Irregular Galaxy (the lower right image).
The first #IrregularGalaxy observed by Euclid is called NGC 6822 and is located nearby, only 1.6 million light-years from the Earth.
Most galaxies in the early Universe are not like the typical ordered #spiral, but are irregular and small, even if they are the building blocks of larger galaxies like our own. - #NGC6397 Globular Cluster (first image in the upper right corner).
This is the second closest globular cluster to Earth, located about 7800 light-years away. #GlobularClusters are collections of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity. Currently no other telescope besides EUCLID can observe an entire globular cluster in a single observation and at the same time distinguish so many stars in the cluster. These faint stars tell us the story of the Milky Way and where dark matter is found. - #IC342 Spiral Galaxy (image in the middle).
Thanks to his infrared vision, EUCLID has already discovered crucial information about the stars in this galaxy, which is a #doppelganger of our own Milky Way.
Read more on: https://lnkd.in/dyCvAA4e.
Image credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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