@europeanspaceagency: Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart ✨ This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by our Euclid space telescope. Packed with more than 60 million stars, this image opens the door for scientists to confirm the existence of any exoplanet found in this region and measure its mass using tiny changes in starlight over time. The galactic bulge – the central region of our galaxy – is a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow colour. Seen from some 26 000 light-years away, Euclid observes the galaxy’s centre through a complex foreground of material along its line of sight. This ultra-wide view towards the bulge reveals not only stars, but also seemingly empty dark regions. The dark patches are not devoid of stars: they mark dense, dust-rich molecular clouds that absorb and scatter light from the bulge behind them. As Euclid looks through two of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, it also encounters regions of active star formation, traced by newly formed, massive blue stars. Their intense ultraviolet radiation ionises surrounding hydrogen gas, producing the faint red glow. 📹 European Space Agency (ESA) #ESA #Space #EuclidTelescope

jnkiiz 🌌🔭 :

Do you know if Sagittarius A* is in this photo?

linn. :

A beautiful universe...

SoHeL🎉🌺 :

Amazing 🙌

HUMAN BEING BC :

🔥

Dinzoe_77 :

it's unbelievable to actually see how many stars are there in our galaxy

blaque.1800 :

Its images like this, that make you believe ‘Milky Way’ has more than 100 billion stars. Amazing

lewis2.0 :

no se puede calcular la inmensidad del universo..

Angel Lia :

golden way ♥️

Zyrusism :

This is so cool

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monibiogeo :

Amazing 🥹

Mrs M Moose :

The Vortex. I wish Douglas Adams could have seen this.

Loneleagend :

We are sitting here on our little blue marble looking at the Univers in awe and wonder is there someone somewhere who looks up as well wondering like I do

Hikaru Matsuura :

Beautiful🥰

K :

majestic

vannn :

Tuyệt vời

lewis2.0 :

HAY MILLONES DE MILES....DE ESTRELLAS, COMO VAMOS A ESTAR SOLO NOSOTROS...

JAVIER :

libertad!

UFO_LAW🛸 :

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Sybille Crane 🇩🇪 :

❤️❤️❤️

Daniel :

Great job @ESA!