Image courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid
Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg)
Joel Kontinen
Space tells of the wonders of creation.
A dark cloud named LDN 1641 is around 1300 light
years away from Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible
light from stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments
aboard the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to
capture this stunning image.
This
twinkling tapestry of young stars being born amidst a swirling sea of gas and
dust is part of a dark cloud named LDN 1641, around 1300 light years away from
Earth. Dark clouds are so called because they block the visible light from
stars behind them. It is only thanks to the infrared instruments aboard the
European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope that we have been able to capture this
stunning image.
Source:
New Scientist 2025
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