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Euclid's first data release: A stepping stone to its 3D map of the sky
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The ESA's Euclid has already teased us with some early results. In the past, it's given us a small image covering 60 square degrees of the sky, created with a few days of observations. Those images showed individual targets from the Horsehead Nebula to the Perseus cluster of gala
The ESA's Euclid has already teased us with some early results. In the past, it's given us a small image covering 60 square degrees of the sky, created with a few days of observations. Those images showed individual targets from the Horsehead Nebula to the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
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