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"The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has
been captured by a space telescope designed to reveal the mysterious dark
forces that shape the universe.
Astronomers used the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope to capture the
largest, most detailed image ever taken of the visible light pouring from the
centre of the Milky Way. The telescope’s camera is rare in being sensitive
enough to separate individual stars in the crowded region known as the galactic
bulge.
The enormous image marked the start of a new age of discovery of planets
outside Earth’s solar system, researchers said. The number of known worlds is
expected to rocket beyond the thousands already spotted around faraway stars.
Dr Eamonn Kerins, an astrophysicist at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell
Bank Centre for Astrophysics, said of the Euclid telescope: “It was never built
with this science in mind, but it has proved to be a superb facility for the
work.
“This data fires the starting pistol in a new age of exoplanet discovery, where
we go from knowing about 6,000 exoplanets to finding more than 100,000 across
the galaxy.”"
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