“After more than 11 years of designing and developing Euclid, it’s exhilarating and enormously emotional to see these first images.”
“After more than 11 years of designing and developing Euclid, it’s exhilarating and enormously emotional to see these first images,” said Giuseppe Racca, the Euclid project manager, in anRacca added: “It’s even more incredible when we think that we see just a few galaxies here, produced with minimum system tuning. The fully calibrated Euclid will ultimately observe billions of galaxies to create the biggest ever 3D map of the sky.
The first sample images were taken by the telescope's two onboard cameras: the VISible instrument and the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer .NISP will image the galaxies in infrared light as well as measure the amount of light emitted by galaxies at various wavelengths. This data could help scientists determine how far certain galaxies are.
The mission team highlighted in the release that these images hold even greater significance as they were captured despite encountering a glitch shortly after activating the VIS instrument for the first time. The team noticed "an unexpected pattern of light contaminating the images".
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