The Center of Our Galaxy: A 6-gigapixel image | Europe's Euclid Space Telescope
Millions of stars. Thousands of hidden worlds. One unprecedented view of our galaxy.
Three years since launch, the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope reveals the Milky Way galaxy’s center in extraordinary detail: a mosaic of tens of millions of stars captured in just 26 hours.
However, this is more than an image. It is a map of stellar evolution from dark clouds where stars are being born to ancient populations packed into the galactic bulge.
And hidden within this dense field of light are planets we cannot see directly.
Through gravitational microlensing, astronomers detect distant worlds by measuring tiny, temporary changes in light as stars pass in front of one another, revealing planets and even their masses through gravity alone.
Euclid, originally built to explore dark matter and dark energy, is now helping open a new window on our own galaxy, and the unseen worlds within it.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 11 minutes
Release Date: July 1, 2026
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