Euclid’s Milky Way Preview Boosts Roman’s Galactic Bulge Survey
TL;DR
ESA’s Euclid captured a Milky Way core snapshot to precede NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s deep Galactic Bulge survey. By adding Euclid’s one-day preview to Roman’s planned observations, scientists will extend the survey window, improve Milky Way mapping, and enhance the detection of microlensing events that can reveal exoplanets and wandering stellar-mass black holes.
- Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman NASA (.gov)
- ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart European Space Agency
- Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre The Guardian
- Telescope captures most detailed image yet of Milky Way's heart: "Cosmic magnifying glass" CBS News
- This is the largest and most detailed image of our Milky Way — with over 60 million stars and 50 exoplanet systems Space
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