ESA is releasing the first full-colour images of the cosmos captured by its recently launched space telescope Euclid. Follow live a broadcast of the reveal on Tuesday 7 November at 13:15 GMT / 14:15 CET. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky. Five images show that the telescope is ready for its mission to create the most extensive 3D map of the Universe yet and uncover some of its hidden secrets.

This incredible snapshot from Euclid is a revolution for astronomy. The image shows 1000 galaxies belonging to the Perseus Cluster, and more than 100 000 additional galaxies further away in the background, each containing up to hundreds of billions of stars.

Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion.

This sparkly image shows Euclid’s view on a globular cluster called NGC 6397. Globular clusters are collections of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity.

Scenes from the first hot-fire test of the Helix rocket engine built by Rocket Factory Augsburg, known as RFA, at the Swedish Space Corporation Esrange site in Kiruna, Sweden. The final scene shows testing of the RFA One rocket fairing separation designed and developed by RFA in Portugal.

Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA One launch vehicle is being developed in Augsburg, Germany, with hot-fire tests of the engine and second stage performed at the Esrange Space Center in Sweden, under an initial Boost! co-funding committed by ESA in 2022.

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After years of development with the support of the ESA Education programme, the Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 (EIRSAT-1) is set to launch in November, marking Ireland’s first steps into space.