Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA

This is Euclid’s Deep Field Fornax. After only one observation, the space telescope already spotted 4.5 million galaxies in this field. In the coming years, Euclid will make 52 observations of this field to reach its full depth.

Euclid’s Deep Field Fornax spans 12.1 square degrees and is located in the southern constellation Fornax, the furnace. It encompasses the much smaller Chandra Deep Field South, a 0.11 square degree region of the sky that has been extensively surveyed in the past couple of decades with NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatories, as well as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and major ground-based telescopes.

Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi

Provider: Euclid

Image Source: https://euclid.caltech.edu/image/euclid20250319m-euclid-deep-field-fornax-preview

Curator: ESA/Euclid

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