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<\/div>Euclid\u2019s image of the star-forming region Messier 78<\/p>\n
Messier 78 ESA\/Euclid\/Euclid Consortium\/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA Standard Licence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
The Euclid space telescope<\/a> team has released its first science images. They show sparkling clusters of galaxies, an astonishingly sharp image of a nearby spiral galaxy and a colourful cloud of interstellar gas that is home to hundreds of thousands of young stars.<\/p>\n The above picture shows a star-forming region called Messier 78. Euclid is so much more sensitive than previous telescopes that it revealed more than 300,000 new objects in this image alone, most of them newborn stars. Some of those objects are also rogue planets<\/a>, which float around on their own rather than orbiting stars. They were previously impossible to spot in this area.<\/p>\n \n