This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way's Center
Marta MussoScienceJun 28, 2026 5:30 AMThis Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s CenterThe Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy’s “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.Photograph: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. “During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique, all with ground-based telescopes and all towards the center of our galaxy. “This data can also be used for other scientific applications, from brown dwarfs and binary stars to stellar motions and dust across our galaxy.”This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.
- ▪Marta MussoScienceJun 28, 2026 5:30 AMThis Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s CenterThe Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy’s “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.Photograph: ESA/Euclid/Euclid
- ▪“During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique, all with ground-based telescopes and all towards the center of our galaxy.
- ▪“This data can also be used for other scientific applications, from brown dwarfs and binary stars to stellar motions and dust across our galaxy.”This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.
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Marta MussoScienceJun 28, 2026 5:30 AMThis Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s CenterThe Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy’s “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.Photograph: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay)CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyThe European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever obtained of the Milky Way's galactic bulge, the central region of our galaxy.The image is a mosaic containing more than 60 million stars, as well as nebulae and star clusters.
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