Milky Way’s Core Revealed by Euclid, Hinting at a Galaxy Teeming with Exoplanets
The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope captured nine visible-light images of the Milky Way’s center over 26 hours, revealing about 60 million stars in a patch the size of a full Moon; although built to study dark matter and dark energy, its microlensing observations could map tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of exoplanets across the galaxy, signaling a new era of exoplanet discovery alongside other space telescopes.
