Notices by Euclid Consortium (ec_euclid@astrodon.social)

Scientists with #ESAEuclid have discovered an Einstein Ring gravitational lens in a nearby NGC galaxies - something very rare, unexpected, and beautiful. NGC 6505 bends space, turning the image of a background galaxy into a ring.

Read more: https://www.euclid-ec.org/einstein-ring-in-ngc-6505/

#astronomy #space #science

The combination of #ESAEuclid's spatial resolution and sensitivity of these observations shows the central Einstein Ring in NGC 6505 so clearly that it almost looks painted. But it is being created by gravity.

#astronomy #space #science

#ESA has published a 'Sonification' of #ESAEuclid's image of the Messier 78 star forming region. Sound from an image of the Universe - how does that work?

Here are explanation and sonified image: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/Cosmic_jingles_listen_to_Euclid_s_image_of_M78

#astronomy #space #music #art #astrodon

#ESAEuclid's 'Space Warps' #citizenscience search for gravitational lenses is still running. You can participate!

https://www.euclid-ec.org/space-warps-euclid

#astronomy #ESA #Euclid #space

#ESAEuclid's first public search project for strong gravitational lenses is now also officially live at 'Space Warps – ESA Euclid'. Anyone can contribute! We're aiming at classifying 100,000 galaxies in this project.

Here's our blog post with more background: https://www.euclid-ec.org/space-warps-euclid

#astronomy #space #astrodon #science

We are amazed, #ESAEuclid's video showcasing and zooming into the first large skypatch has already been viewed 1.2 million times! In only 3 weeks. We can understand, we are totally fascinated by our #Euclid data, but we are very happy that so many people seem to share this 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ

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Why does #DarkMatter change the observed shape of #galaxies? 🌀 And by how much? What is #WeakGravitationalLensing and how does #ESAEuclid 🛰️ use this technique to map 📷 the matter distribution across the Universe?

We have a new @ec_euclid blog post with a brief intro into this:

👉🏻 https://www.euclid-ec.org/mapping-the-dark-universe-with-gravitational-weak-lensing

#ESA #astrodon #astronomy #space #DarkEnergy

#Euclid has hardware, software, data, and functional contributions by more than 100 institutions across #ESA member states, the USA, Canada, and Japan.

With the fully assembled #satellite currently undergoing final tests, and with the science computing ground segment on it's home stretch, we're seeing Euclid rapidly turning from hard- and software into a soon flying #astronomy data-producing #space mission!

To introduce ourselves: we are the Euclid Consortium, the 2000+ people behind #ESA's #Euclid dark Universe mission. Euclid is a satellite to be launched to the Sun-Earth L2 point in 2023 to conduct a 6 year survey of the extragalactic sky.

Euclid's goal is to advance our knowledge of #DarkEnergy and #DarkMatter, by measuring the expansion history of the Universe and the progress of structure formation.

You can find our homepage at https://www.euclid-ec.org.

Or we should rather say:

Hello, fediverse!

Hello, world!

We wish everyone around the globe a good start into 2024. The closing year 2023 marked a central milestone for us, the successful #launch and #commissioning of #ESAEuclid.

2024 will surely provide new challenges, but foremost the start of our #science sky surveys! In the next 12 months #Euclid will observe more than 2000 square degrees of the sky with hundreds of millions of #galaxies and #stars. The data floodgates will open - and amazing science will result!

#astronomy #astrodon #space #ESA

#Euclid is a #space #telescope 🛰️ to escape #Earth's atmosphere, absorbing infrared-radiation and creating wobbly images. But space also has "weather". Given the currently active #sun 😎 and warnings of "geomagnetic storms" here's an intro blog post into "space weather" 🌪️ and how it affects the #ESAEuclid satellite.

#astronomy #cosmology

https://www.euclid-ec.org/space-weather

What is #ESAEuclid? It's a physics experiment and an #ESA space mission 🛰️ - but foremost it's a project imagined, designed, built, and operated by more than 2000 scientists, engineers, and technicians 👩🔬 👨💻 👩🔧.

We are now starting a series of #blog-posts showcasing a cross-section of the people behind #Euclid

First up:

Valeria Pettorino, ESA Euclid Project Scientist

https://www.euclid-ec.org/portraits-of-euclideans-valeria-pettorino

and

Virginia Ajani, Scientist in the Interscience Task Force for Likelihood

https://www.euclid-ec.org/portraits-of-euclideans-virginia-ajani

Finally, after months of work, the #ESAEuclid Early Release Observation images, data, first science results, and #Euclid mission reference papers have been released. You can read more in our blog post, which has links to the papers, the press releases, and everything else:

https://www.euclid-ec.org/first-early-release-observation-science-and-reference-paper-release

#astronomy #astrodon #science #space #cosmology