Visual Description:
A wide, horizontal image shows an oval, map-like view set against a black background. Across the centre of the oval runs a bright, narrow band filled with countless tiny points of light, denser and brighter than the areas above and below it. The band looks slightly mottled, with lighter and darker patches mixed together, similar to a thin stripe of dust or mist stretched across a surface. Several rectangular zoom-in panels are overlaid on the main image, showing close-up views of densely packed stars in yellow, gold, and darker tones.
The location of Euclid’s new image of the galactic bulge is visible on Gaia’s map of the entire sky.
This callout shows the staggering resolution of Euclid’s image. The most zoomed-in vignette on the lower right corresponds to 0.003% of the galactic bulge survey area (which is 4.8 square degrees in total). With many thousands of stars discernible in this tiny area, the entire Euclid galactic bulge image charts no less than 60 million stars.
Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay)
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Collage
