ESA telescope captures more than 1 billion stars and galaxies for its 3D map of the universe

ESA’s Euclid space telescope has released the biggest piece yet of its 3D map of the universe, ESA says. The release covers about 13 months of observations over an area about 9,500 times the size of the full Moon and contains more than 1 billion objects, including over 900 million galaxies. The video zooms into a nearly 500-gigapixel mosaic of the northern sky and the Messier 81 galaxy group, about 12 million light-years away. ESA released the data on November 12, 2026. Video Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin