{"id":515457,"date":"2026-06-28T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:37:09","slug":"this-is-the-most-detailed-image-of-the-milky-ways-crowded-heart-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/515457\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the most detailed image of the Milky Way\u2019s crowded heart yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Jun 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>This is the most detailed image of the Milky Way\u2019s crowded heart yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The ESA\u2019s Euclid telescope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">captured<\/a> an enormous image containing some 60 million stars and nebulae. It took 26 hours to amass, starting March 23rd, 2025, and it\u2019s undeniably stunning. You can download the full-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Euclid\/ESA_s_Euclid_captures_the_Milky_Way_s_crowded_heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIFF<\/a> version, which weighs in at 697MB, or just watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Terrence O&#8217;BrienClose<img alt=\"Terrence O'Brien\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1bw37385 i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782671829_306_TERRENCE_BLURPLE.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/terrence-obrien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All by Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NewsClose<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ScienceClose<\/p>\n<p>Science<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceClose<\/p>\n<p>Space<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Jun 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM UTC This is the most detailed image of the Milky Way\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,43,141,145],"class_list":["post-515457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}