We have made a 5min film about #ESAEuclid 🛰️ #FirstLight 💡, what these images are, what #Euclid's #science will be, and what the next steps are towards science-ready images.
Massive, Cloud-Like Planet Discovered That's as Fluffy as Cotton Candy: The galaxy can throw some odd curveballs, but an exoplanet discovered 1,232 light-years away is one of the oddest yet. It's WASP-193b, and while it's nearly 50 percent bigger than Jupiter, it's so light and fluffy that its overall density is comparable to that of cotton candy. https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-cloud-like-planet-discovered-thats-as-fluffy-as-cotton-candy
Hubble images a starstruck galaxy: The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber, the bright star BD+17 2217. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-hubble-images-starstruck-galaxy.html
Europe's Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday, kicking off a first-ever mission to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.
After a month-long trip through space, Euclid will join the James Webb telescope at a stable hovering spot around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth called the second Lagrange Point.