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Jun 24 2026

Behind the scenes: Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey (Q2)

Consortium, ESA, People, Publication, Science, Telescope and instruments / By Tancrède Menard

On 23 March 2025, the Euclid space telescope targeted an unusual location: a region near the Galactic Centre, capturing an exceptionally deep, wide-field, and high-resolution view of the Milky Way’s inner bulge. Over roughly 24 hours, the telescope observed nine contiguous fields, covering a total of 4.8 square degrees, capturing the images of roughly 60 million stars in total. Now the images and catalogues are made public to the world – we take the opportunity to peek behind the curtain to see what makes this image so special and which challenges had to be overcome.

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Jun 5 2026

Euclid starts seeing darkness

Consortium, People, Publication, Science / By Knud Jahnke

Euclid‘s core mission to study the nature of dark energy includes two central probes: one is tracking the expansion history of the Universe, the other traces structure formation over cosmic time. Ahead of the first cosmology results coming out in 2027, scientists have now published a first demonstration that Euclid can indeed trace massive structures dominated by usually invisible dark matter, using the technique of ‘weak gravitational lensing’.

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Apr 21 2026

Space Warps – Euclid DR1

Consortium, Science / By Tancrède Menard

Space Warps is back! Do you want to join forces with Euclid Consortium scientists and discover gravitational lenses that no human has ever seen before? We’re announcing the next Space Warps Citizen Science campaign with Euclid data – now previewing images from Data Release 1. Here is how to become part of the project.

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Mar 3 2026

Euclid and HST join forces to look at a Cat’s Eye

Consortium, ESA, Science, Telescope and instruments / By Knud Jahnke

Euclid covers a much larger area in every image compared to previous space telescopes, all while resolving details. The Hubble Space Telescope has a roughly 2x larger mirror than Euclid and can still resolve structures twice as fine, but over a much smaller area: It could in principle carry out Euclid’s Wide Survey, but it would take 100s of years instead of only six. So what happens when combining Hubble’s eye for detail and Euclid’s field of view? Something incredible is the result.

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