ESA’s Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Euclid has two instruments: the VISible instrument (VIS) to observe the visible light and also the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) to take images in the near-infrared light. Euclid’s two instruments have captured their very first test images. The mesmerising results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more.

In August 2023, the first calibration images were taken. Tomorrow on 7 November, from 14:00 CET, the first scientific images will be released on live broadcast!

These images were made possible thanks to more than 300 institutions & 80 companies from 21 countries, and the work of more than 3500 people: scientists, engineers, technicians, and administrative staff.

Join the live broadcast on #ESAWebTV on 7 November, from 14:00 CET:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV