ESA's Euclid never stops amazing us!

This powerful and innovative space telescope has recently unveiled a cosmic treasure - a breathtaking Einstein ring. This rare astronomical phenomenon was spotted within a relatively nearby galaxy, at some 590 million light-years from Earth. Although this galaxy, which was first discovered in 1884, has been well-known to astronomers for a very long time, this ring was never detected before.
This discovery clearly demonstrates the telescope’s tremendous potential in advancing our understanding of the universe,

Launched on July 1st 2023, Euclid embarked on a six-year mission dedicated to investigating dark matter and dark energy. The spacecraft started its detailed survey on February 14th 2024, aiming to create the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe ever realised. The newly unveiled image was extracted from data collected by the Euclid space telescope during its initial testing phase in September 2023 meant to check that all systems were functioning correctly.

SPACEBEL’s control and data management software plays a key role in this revolutionary mission: it controls the Euclid spacecraft along with its sub-systems and commands the instrument in charge of the acquisition of Euclid’s impressive images.

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