The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope has just magnified our view of the universe with the release of its first wave of survey data, capturing hundreds of thousands of galaxies in remarkable detail. The latest update shares a preview of three deep fields, areas chock-full of galaxies that Euclid will inspect as part of its mission to map one-third of the entire sky.
With one scan of each deep field, Euclid has been able to spot 26 million galaxies, the farthest of which lie 10.5 billion light-years away. To classify this deluge of cosmic data, the ESA has called upon citizen scientists to help classify the galaxies with some assistance from AI algorithms. More than 380,000 galaxies have been classified so far, but this amount is just one drop of a colossal data pool that will bring images of 1.5 billion galaxies to light over the next few years.
