Euclid was launched by Space X in July and captures an area of sky a hundred times larger than NASA's James Webb Telescope.
Europe's new space telescope has sent back its first dazzling images - and will now begin peering into the invisible dark forces manipulating the universe. The Euclid telescope will observe the shapes, distances and movements of billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away to create the largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos.
ESA says scientists will analyse the images for baby stars, young brown dwarfs as well as dim and previously unseen planets the size of Jupiter that are still in their celestial infancy. 'Never seen' such astronomical images Rene Laureijs, ESA's Euclid project scientist, said: 'We have never seen astronomical images like this before, containing so much detail.
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