ESA’s Euclid captures 60 million Milky Way stars (opens in new tab)

The European Space Agency released the largest and most detailed visible-light image yet of the Milky Way’s central bulge, showing more than 60 million stars in the crowded heart of the galaxy. Euclid captured the view in March 2025 in about 26 hours using its visible-light camera, and ESA said the instrument could distinguish individual stars in the dense region despite being designed mainly to observe distant galaxies. Euclid launched in 2023 to map a large portion of the sky and investigat...