{"id":175584,"date":"2023-11-07T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/esas-euclid-mission-stuns-researchers-with-quality-of-first-images"},"modified":"2023-11-07T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T22:27:15","slug":"esas-euclid-mission-stuns-researchers-with-quality-of-first-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/esas-euclid-mission-stuns-researchers-with-quality-of-first-images","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Euclid Mission Stuns Researchers With Quality Of First Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esas-euclid-mission-stuns-researchers-with-quality-of-first-images2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four months after launch, the European Space Agency\u2019s Euclid spacecraft has sent back its first stunning color images. The five images, which were officially unveiled to the media today at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Center here in Darmstadt, Germany, highlighted the mission\u2019s techical prowess.<\/p>\n<p>The five early release images capture details of both clusters of distant galaxies as well as a globular cluster of old stars within our own Milky Way Galaxy with unprecedented sensitivity and precision.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, with contributions from NASA, is on the cusp of starting its routine science of imaging galaxies over a third of the sky in hopes of finally revealing the mysteries behind the dark\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Euclid observatory early image release delighted astronomers at a press event today in Germany. The mission expects to begin routine action in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four months after launch, the European Space Agency\u2019s Euclid spacecraft has sent back its first stunning color images. The five images, which were officially unveiled to the media today at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Center here in Darmstadt, Germany, highlighted the mission\u2019s techical prowess. The five early release images capture details of both clusters of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}