The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has unveiled its biggest piece of the universe yet! Zoom into an incredible 500-gigapixel mosaic capturing millions of stars and galaxies, traveling beyond the Milky Way to the Messier 81 galaxy group, nearly 12 million light-years from Earth.
Euclid's powerful camera reveals individual stars in the spiral galaxy Messier 81 (M81), along with countless distant galaxies billions of light-years away.
Together, Euclid's newly released mosaics contain light from more than a billion cosmic objects, helping scientists build an unprecedented 3D map of the universe to investigate the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
