A 500 Gigapixel Mosaic of The Universe | Europe's Euclid Space Telescope

A 500 Gigapixel Mosaic of The Universe | Europe's Euclid Space Telescope

  

On November 12, 2026, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope released its first major batch of data: DR1-Foundation. As part of this very large data release Euclid has captured the light of more than a billion objects over an area of sky as big as 9500 full Moons, laying the foundation for its largest ever 3D map of the cosmos.

In this video, we zoom into the northern mosaic, nearly 500 gigapixels in size. This mosaic comprises 740 observations collected in autumn 2024 and spring 2025 as part of the Euclid Wide Survey, and covers 367 deg2 of the northern sky. 

Read more: https://www.esa.int/articles/about-us/directorates/science/euclid/euclid-lays-the-foundation-for-its-best-ever-3d-map-of-the-universe

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.

ESA's Euclid Space Telescope:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid

Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA Image Processing: J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin; ESA/GaiaDPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 12, 2026

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