Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart to weigh exoplanets
TL;DR
ESA's Euclid produced the largest, most detailed visible-light image of the Milky Way's central bulge, cataloging over 60 million stars in a nine-pointing mosaic captured in ~26 hours. The view enables microlensing studies to detect and measure exoplanets in our galaxy and will serve as a past/future time reference for the Roman telescope; the data already include hosts of known cold exoplanets such as OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb and OGLE-2013-BLG-341Lb.
- ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart European Space Agency
- Behold Our Best View Yet of the Milky Way’s Massive Galactic Bulge Gizmodo
- Euclid captures 60 million stars in sharpest broad view of Milky Way's core Phys.org
- Telescope captures most detailed photo of Milky Way yet RTE.ie
- Manchester researcher helps capture most detailed picture of the Milky Way’s crowded heart The University of Manchester
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