ESA's Euclid Mission Captures Highest Resolution Image of Milky Way's Galactic Center
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Kate Mothes
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In March 2025, the ESA's Euclid mission captured the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy. The image reveals a massive swarm of stars forming a bulge at the galaxy's heart, composed mainly of old, cooler stars giving it a characteristic yellow hue. Scientists are using this data to search for exoplanets through microlensing, a technique that monitors tiny changes in starlight over time to pinpoint exoplanets and measure their mass.
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· 3 pulledIn March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The galactic bulgeâthe central region of our galaxyâis a vast, tightly packed structure filled mainly with old, cooler stars, giving it its characteristic yellow
Scientists can pinpoint exoplanets and measure their mass by monitoring tiny changes in starlight over time in a process called microlensing.
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