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Euclid offers best-ever 3D map of the universe to date

The Euclid Consortium and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the first major batch of data from the Euclid space telescope.

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The Euclid Consortium and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the first major batch of data from the Euclid space telescope. This release, which captures light from more than a billion objects and covers an area of sky equivalent to 9,500 full moons, lays the foundation for Europe's dark universe detective's largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos. Several German research facilities play crucial roles in the Euclid mission's success.

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