The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Euclid Space Telescope on July 1st, and today, it provides us with its first image: the Horsehead Nebula. Located 1,375 light-years from Earth, Horsehead is known for the dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head, part of the constellation Orion.
Unlike other telescopes, Euclid needed only one hour to capture this dazzling image of the Horsehead, showcasing the mission’s ability to quickly observe an unprecedented area of the sky in extreme detail. This new data of the stellar nursery will help scientists locate many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.
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We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions. Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” said Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante, Legacy Scientist for Euclid of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife.
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