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Euclid DR1-Foundation
Peter Coles · By telescoper ·
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- ESA's Euclid mission released its first main data release, named DR1-Foundation, on 2026-11-12.
- The release comprises 13 months of observations.
- The observations capture the light of more than a billion objects.
Why it matters
The public release of a large survey dataset of over a billion objects gives science readers a new resource for cosmology and astronomy research.
Who’s affected
- astronomers and cosmologists
- researchers using large sky survey data
- DR1-Foundation
- #euclid
- #esa
- #space telescope
- #data release
- #cosmology
- #astronomy
As it was foretold , today saw the first main data release – termed DR1-Foundation – from the European Space Agency’s Euclid Mission . I’ve taken the liberty of including the official press release below, but first I thought I’d do a quick summary of what this represents. The…