The ESA's Euclid space telescope took 26 hours to capture this portrait of the Milky Way's central bulge. This isn't part of its primary mission; instead it's kind of like bonus science. It'll be used in the Roman Space Telescope's gravitational microlensing search for exoplanets. Regardless of the science, it's an impressive image. The ESA's Euclid Space Telescope is built to measure the redshift of huge numbers of galaxies. The goal is to understand dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the Universe. But because the telescope features a 600 MB, wide angle camera, it c... [7161 chars]
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