See the Universe like NEVER before: UK scientists use the Euclid spacecraft to take the largest images of the cosmos ever taken from space - revealing a 'jellyfish' nebula and a clone of the Milky Way
Among them is a shot of a spiral galaxy 30 million light-years away that looks like our own Milky Way and a beautiful cloud of faraway gas and dust shaped like a jellyfish. NGC 6744NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo, also known as the Peacock. Galaxy clusters like Abell 2390 are large repositories of dark matter, making them ideal astrophysical laboratories for studying its properties. ESA describes Abell 2764 as a very dense region of space containing hundreds of galaxies orbiting within a halo of dark matter – matter that's completely invisible. Dark matter, which unlike normal matter does not reflect or emit light, binds together galaxies creating the environment for stars, planets and life.
Source: Daily Mail May 23, 2024 22:30 UTC
