The Euclid space telescope, on a mission to chart the elusive dark universe, has captured its first images, revealing countless galaxies and a nearby nebula
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LP 791-18d orbits a small red dwarf star about 90 light-years away in a constellation called Crater in the southern celestial hemisphere
WASP-39b is a gas giant about the mass of Saturn and the size of Jupiter
“These observations just make your head explode”
“It was a special moment, crossing an important threshold in exoplanet sciences”
The images show our near neighbourhood in precise detail
“This piece of rock crystal has been carefully ground and polished, and undoubtedly has optical properties”
“We’re potentially looking at the most distant starlight ever seen”
Its sensors have detected six deformations on the telescope's primary mirror panels that have been attributed to strikes
It was preceded by the first image released earlier on Tuesday