Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields

Science & Exploration Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields 19/03/2025 46426 views 128 likes On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web. Euclid is back – 26 million galaxies and counting Covering a huge area of the sky in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and transient phenomena, as well as the first classification survey of more than 380 000 galaxies and 500 gravitational lens candidates compiled through combined artificial intelligence and citizen science efforts. All of this sets the scene for the broad range of topics that the dark Universe detective Euclid is set to address with its rich dataset. “Euclid shows itself once again to be the u ... Read full article.