Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInEUCLID Ohio (WOIO) - Police are investigating the murder of a 19-year-old boy The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said Delamar Williams Williams was transported by Euclid Firefighters to University Hospitals 19 News has reached out to Euclid Police for additional information Highway 14/83 (Euclid Avenue) – from Sioux Avenue intersection to the divided highway west of S.D Elizabeth Street (between Highway 14 and Grand Avenue).​ simply text the keyword listed below to 605-566-4041 Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time. Text EUCLID to 605-566-4041 Year One: Phase One and Two: Spring 2025 - Fall 2025 Year Two: All Work Complete: Spring 2026 - Nov     the traffic signals at Pierre street were removed and a two-way traffic configuration through the intersection was installed on the north half of Sioux Avenue (U.S Highway 14/83) as the contractor began work on the south half A 12-foot width restriction is now in effect with overwidth vehicles needing to utilize S.D Highway 1804 as the signed overwidth detour.  Surfacing removal has been completed on Pierre Street from Sioux Avenue to one block north Surfacing removal is also complete from the East Pleasant Drive and Euclid Avenue intersection north thru Capital Avenue The contractor then began working on excavating in order to replace City of Pierre utilities at three concurrent locations: Sioux Avenue and Euclid Avenue from Pleasant to Capital Avenue.  The traveling public is asked to be alert through the work zone for longer queues of traffic and workers adjacent to moving traffic.  On Sioux Avenue: The contractor will install a temporary bypass sanitary sewer line under Sioux Avenue traffic while they adjust and install the new sanitary sewer line They will also replace a water line under Sioux Avenue traffic from the Southwest to the Northwest quadrant of the intersection.  On Pierre Street (from Sioux Avenue to one block north): The contractor will be installing manholes On Euclid Avenue (from east Pleasant Drive through Capital Avenue): The contractor will be installing manholes and coordinating with Lumen utility relocation.  Due to the inclement weather received this week the contractor for the Euclid Avenue project in Pierre was unable to set up traffic control as previously planned for Monday traffic control on South Pierre Street will begin to be adjusted into a two-way traffic configuration with access from Dakota Avenue Detour signing from Sioux Avenue will direct local business patrons at Central Avenue and Highland Avenue to Dakota Avenue where they can then access South Pierre Street Detour signing and pavement markings will be in effect by Friday the two-way traffic configuration for east and west commuters through the Sioux Avenue and Pierre Street intersection will be set up either Saturday This configuration for east and west commuters through the intersection will be in effect until Thursday Access to Pierre Street from its intersection with Sioux Avenue will be closed Traffic signals at this intersection will no longer be utilized and commuters will need to advance through the intersection at a reduced speed Pedestrians needing to cross Sioux Avenue at the Pierre Street intersection will be detoured to the traffic signals at Highland Avenue and Central Avenue.  During this two-way traffic configuration through the Sioux Avenue Pierre Street intersection a 12-foot width restriction will be in effect Over-width vehicles will be routed around the dam on a signed detour route utilizing S.D   The traveling public is asked to be alert through the work zone for longer queues of traffic and workers adjacent to the moving traffic.  the two-way traffic configuration to be implemented on Sioux Ave at South Pierre Street will be delayed until weather conditions improve Access to South Pierre Street / businesses south of Sioux Avenue will remain “as is” until the two-way traffic configuration on Sioux Avenue is implemented South Pierre Street is closed north of Sioux Avenue Access to South Pierre Street north of Sioux Ave is now from Pleasant Drive Euclid Ave is closed from Pleasant Drive through Capital Avenue Urban Reconstruction Project Scheduled to Begin on U.S Highways 14/83 (Euclid Avenue) in Pierre  Highway 14/83 (Euclid Avenue) urban reconstruction project within the city of Pierre is scheduled to begin in multiple locations Closures will be in place throughout the 2025 construction season An initial closure will be in place from the Sioux Avenue and Pierre Street intersection extending north approximately one block Construction work will then continue north and east to the Pleasant Drive and Euclid Avenue intersection An initial closure will also be in place from the Pleasant Avenue and Euclid Avenue intersection extending north one block through Capital Street Block closures will continue north in 2025 to the Euclid Avenue and Wynoka Street intersection Work in the Sioux Avenue and Pierre Street intersection will require a two-way traffic configuration for east and west commuters through the intersection until Thursday Progress in the first year of construction is scheduled to be complete from Sioux Avenue to the Wynoka Street intersection by its interim completion date of Nov The project will resume in the spring of 2026 work is scheduled to be completed to the end of the project located south of the Highway 1804 junction View Weekly Meeting Minutes on Morris Inc. WebsiteView the City of Pierre's Website for Water Main Project Information STATEWIDE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS PAGE The European Space Agency is releasing the first catalogue of astronomical data from the Euclid space telescope including three new enormous image mosaics with zoom-ins Follow the reveal live on Wednesday 19 March at 11:00 BST / 12:00 CET For this first data release of Euclid’s six-year survey our dark Universe detective has scouted out the three patches of the sky where it will eventually make the deepest observations of its mission these previews of the Euclid deep fields make up 63 square degrees of the sky the equivalent area of more than 300 times the full Moon Euclid opens its first treasure-trove of data that can be used by scientists to answer many open questions in astronomy A new video showing the mosaics, and various beautiful close-ups, will premiere here on ESA YouTube. An ESA press release including high-resolution versions of all images will be issued on 19 March on esa.int/euclid To explore the images in the highest resolution, visit ESASky: https://sky.esa.int/esasky/ UK guitar wizard Mike Dawes has released a studio version of his Euclid cover after live recordings of it went viral last year UK acoustic guitar whizz Mike Dawes has published the official video for his cover of Sleep Token’s Euclid the Guildford fingerstyle player released a studio recording of his rendition live versions of which went viral on TikTok and Instagram last year Dawes has issued a statement about his love for Sleep Token and how he rearranged Euclid for one acoustic guitar “I’ve been a fan of Sleep Token for quite a while since my ex-college housemate produced some of their early work,” he explains “They have such a unique sound with stunning melodies and arrangements that translate perfectly to acoustic guitar “After I opened for Periphery in the US I had the opportunity to jump up at the UK’s Radar festival last year and wanted to take on Euclid just for that show as a nod to Sleep Token who headlined that same festival the previous year The melodies work so well in this CGDGAD tuning I’ve absolutely fallen in love with this arrangement and hope it strikes a chord with others as well.” Euclid is the final song on Sleep Token’s 2023 album, Take Me Back To Eden It ends with a motif introduced at the start of The Night Does Not Belong To God – the first song on their debut album 2019’s Sundowning – intended to mark the end of one ‘era’ of the band and the start of the next Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer Sleep Token’s current ‘era’ kicked off last year, when the masked band signed to major label RCA They’ll release their first album through their new home The band will play the European festival circuit including a headline slot at Download festival in the UK on June 14 They’ll then play arenas in the United States in the autumn Dates on the headline run sold out within hours of going on sale in March Matt MillsSocial Links NavigationContributing Editor Metal HammerLouder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017 Matt’s become a regular in Metal Hammer and Prog at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster Ghost's $130 Papa V Perpetua 'Ghildo' sells out in minutes "Metal is the most positive thing in the world" Scorpions cancel three shows as illness leaves Klaus Meine with "inability to sing" an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions has made a surprising discovery in our cosmic backyard: a phenomenon called an Einstein ring An Einstein ring is light from a distant galaxy bending to form a ring that appears aligned with a foreground object whose general theory of relativity predicts that light will bend and brighten around objects in space In this way, particularly massive objects like galaxies and galaxy clusters serve as cosmic magnifying glasses, bringing even more distant objects into view. Scientists call this gravitational lensing. Euclid Archive Scientist Bruno Altieri noticed a hint of an Einstein ring among images from the spacecraft’s early testing phase in September 2023. “Even from that first observation, I could see it, but after Euclid made more observations of the area, we could see a perfect Einstein ring,” Altieri said. “For me, with a lifelong interest in gravitational lensing, that was amazing.” The ring appears to encircle the center of a well-studied elliptical galaxy called NGC 6505, which is around 590 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. That may sound far, but on the scale of the entire universe, NGC 6505 is close by. Thanks to Euclid’s high-resolution instruments, this is the first time that the ring of light surrounding the galaxy has been detected. A close-up view of the center of the NGC 6505 galaxy, with the bright Einstein ring aligned with it, captured by ESA’s Euclid space telescope. Light from a much more distant bright galaxy, some 4.42 billion light-years away, creates the ring in the image. Gravity distorted this light as it traveled toward us. This faraway galaxy hasn’t been observed before and doesn’t yet have a name. Einstein rings are a rich laboratory for scientists to explore many mysteries of the universe. For example, an invisible form of matter called dark matter contributes to the bending of light into a ring, so this is an indirect way to study dark matter. Einstein rings are also relevant to the expansion of the universe because the space between us and these galaxies — both in the foreground and the background — is stretching. Scientists can also learn about the background galaxy itself. By exploring how the universe has expanded and formed over its cosmic history Euclid will reveal more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter Dark energy is the mysterious force that appears to be causing the universe’s expansion The space telescope will map more than a third of the sky observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years It is expected to find around 100,000 strong gravitational lenses “Euclid is going to revolutionize the field with all this data we’ve never had before,” added O’Riordan Although finding this Einstein ring is an achievement less visually obvious type of gravitational lensing called “weak lensing” to help fulfil its quest of understanding dark energy background galaxies appear only mildly stretched or displaced scientists will need to analyze billions of galaxies Euclid launched from Cape Canaveral and began its detailed survey of the sky Feb The mission is gradually creating the most extensive 3D map of the universe yet The Einstein ring find so early in its mission indicates Euclid is on course to uncover many more secrets of the universe The Euclid Consortium — consisting of more than 2,000 scientists from 300 institutes in 15 European countries and Japan — is responsible for providing the scientific instruments and scientific data analysis ESA selected Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for the construction of the satellite and its service module with Airbus Defence and Space chosen to develop the payload module Euclid is a medium-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision Programme Three NASA-supported science teams contribute to the Euclid mission In addition to designing and fabricating the sensor-chip electronics for Euclid’s Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the procurement and delivery of the NISP detectors as well were tested at NASA’s Detector Characterization Lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt The Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI) will archive the science data and support U.S.-based science investigations elandau@nasa.gov calla.e.cofield@jpl.nasa.gov NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky Stars and Galaxies. 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NASA's Psyche Images Stars, Jovian System Almost a year after Euclid Police officer Jacob Derbin's death the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has finished its investigation based on BCI's investigation and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office "there is no evidence to suggest that anyone other than the suspect was responsible for Jacob’s death," according to Euclid Police Derbin was shot during an ambush while responding to a disturbance at a home in the 300 block of East 211th Street just before 10 p.m RELATED: 'Jacob was just an awesome human being': Uncle reflects on life of fallen Euclid Police Officer Jacob Derbin The officer was transported to University Hospitals Euclid Police requested BCI to investigate the shooting and the actions of officers that night so the department could ensure transparency and officers could apprehend the suspect RELATED: Suspect wanted for fatal shooting of Euclid Police officer dead after SWAT standoff Chief Meyer showed compassion to his fellow Officers by not burdening them with the unimaginable responsibility of investigating the horrific murder of one of their own," Euclid Police said in a statement The search for Vaughn ended at a Shaker Heights apartment complex after an hour-long standoff that ended in Vaughn's death the following day Euclid Police said that it has refrained from issuing any detailed statement regarding the shooting to avoid interference with BCI's investigation After the investigation concluded last week the Ohio Attorney General’s Office presented its findings to a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury exonerating EPD Officers of any wrongdoing "There has been no effort by the EPD to obscure the facts surrounding Jacob’s murder We have fully cooperated with all outside investigators," Euclid Police said in a statement "The City of Euclid has also fulfilled massive public record requests filed by multiple individuals and entities RELATED: Euclid PD body camera footage reveals more about moments leading up to killing of Officer Jacob Derbin Derbin joined the department in 2023; he was also a veteran who served in the Army Reserves a new stage in the healing process can hopefully begin," Euclid Police said "An important piece of this process includes our participation in Police Week ceremonies both locally and in our nation’s Capital where both our community and country can honor the lives of fallen Officers and family where we will share our love and grief and summon the will to continue our important work; never forgetting that some made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of others." Ohio (WOIO) - The mother of fallen Officer Jacob Derbin asked Euclid Police Monday to withdraw from National Police Week Ceremonies pending an investigation Euclid Police Ofc. Jacob Derbin was killed in the line of duty during a domestic violence call on May 11 Dawn Derbin alleges Euclid Police have not released enough information regarding the death of her son Jacob’s sacrifice has been followed by silence and what appears to be a lack of meaningful accountability,” Dawn Derbin with hope it will demonstrate CONCLUSIVELY that Jacob was not murdered by friendly fire.” According to Dawn Derbin, she has evidence which allegedly shows Officer Derbin’s death may have come from multiple sources, not just suspect, Deshaun Vaughn and a lack of transparency from city leadership have left her [Dawn Derbin] with deep concerns about how the case has been handled,” the release said who is conducting the investigation into Officer Derbin’s death to see if Officer Derbin was shot by multiple people or “friendly fire.” The BCI issued the following statement in response: BCI can and does investigate officer involved shootings when requested by a law enforcement agency so that a thorough third-party independent investigation can take place. Euclid Police Department asked BCI to investigate this incident BCI’s investigation was completed and handed over to our Special Prosecution Section who took the case to grand jury last week and returned a no bill Our office is in the process of redacting the investigation records so that the investigative file can be released via a public records request the Euclid branch of the Fraternal Order of Police also released a statement: Dawn Derbin also says she believes Euclid Police did not follow high-risk protocols when approaching suspect Deshawn Vaughn that night Euclid Police reports allege Vaughn threatened to shoot several people just days before Ofc “These failures appear to have created a dangerous and preventable situation that endangered both officers and civilians I believe there are valid grounds to question the integrity of the investigation and response,” said Dawn Derbin Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to conduct an independent investigation into the case “To participate in National Police Week ceremonies while continuing to obscure the facts surrounding Jacob’s death does not reflect honor—it deepens the betrayal,” Dawn Derbin said in the release “If the Police Department administration and officials truly wishes to honor Jacob Dawn Derbin said in the release she just wants her questions answered “If we could just all be a little more like Jacob then the world would really be a better place,” Dawn Derbin told 19 News just after Officer Derbin’s death Euclid Police issues the following response: the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web “Euclid shows itself once again to be the ultimate discovery machine It is surveying galaxies on the grandest scale enabling us to explore our cosmic history and the invisible forces shaping our Universe,” says ESA’s Director of Science “With the release of the first data from Euclid’s survey we are unlocking a treasure trove of information for scientists to dive into and tackle some of the most intriguing questions in modern science ESA is delivering on its commitment to enable scientific progress for generations to come.” Euclid has scouted out the three areas in the sky where it will eventually provide the deepest observations of its mission Euclid already spotted 26 million galaxies The farthest of those are up to 10.5 billion light-years away The fields also contain a small population of bright quasars that can be seen much farther away Euclid will pass over these three regions tens of times making these fields truly ‘deep’ by the end of the nominal mission in 2030.  But the first glimpse of 63 square degrees of the sky already gives an impressive preview of the scale of Euclid’s grand cosmic atlas when the mission is complete This atlas will cover one-third of the entire sky – 14 000 square degrees – in this high-quality detail “It’s impressive how one observation of the deep field areas has already given us a wealth of data that can be used for a variety of purposes in astronomy: from galaxy shapes “We will observe each deep field between 30 and 52 times over Euclid’s six year mission each time improving the resolution of how we see those areas and the number of objects we manage to observe Just think of the discoveries that await us.” “The full potential of Euclid to learn more about dark matter and dark energy from the large-scale structure of the cosmic web will be reached only when it has completed its entire survey Yet the volume of this first data release already offers us a unique first glance at the large-scale organisation of galaxies which we can use to learn more about galaxy formation over time," says Clotilde Laigle Euclid Consortium scientist and data processing expert based at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Euclid is expected to capture images of more than 1.5 billion galaxies over six years sending back around 100 GB of data every day Such an impressively large dataset creates incredible discovery opportunities but huge challenges when it comes to searching for The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in combination with thousands of human citizen science volunteers and experts “We’re at a pivotal moment in terms of how we tackle large-scale surveys in astronomy AI is a fundamental and necessary part of our process in order to fully exploit Euclid’s vast dataset,” says Mike Walmsley Euclid Consortium scientist based at the University of Toronto who has been heavily involved in astronomical deep learning algorithms for the last decade “We’re building the tools as well as providing the measurements In this way we can deliver cutting-edge science in a matter of weeks compared with the years-long process of analysing big surveys like these in the past,” he adds A major milestone in this effort is the first detailed catalogue of more than 380 000 galaxies, which have been classified according to features such as spiral arms, central bars, and tidal tails that infer merging galaxies. The catalogue is created by the ‘Zoobot’ AI algorithm. During an intensive one-month campaign on Galaxy Zoo last year 9976 human volunteers worked together to teach Zoobot to recognise galaxy features by classifying Euclid images.  This first catalogue released today represents just 0.4% of the total number of galaxies of similar resolution expected to be imaged over Euclid’s lifetime The final catalogue will present the detailed morphology of at least an order of magnitude more galaxies than ever measured before helping scientists answer questions like how spiral arms form and how supermassive black holes grow.  “We’re looking at galaxies from inside to out from how their internal structures govern their evolution to how the external environment shapes their transformation over time,” adds Clotilde “Euclid is a goldmine of data and its impact will be far-reaching from galaxy evolution to the bigger-picture cosmology goals of the mission.” Light travelling towards us from distant galaxies is bent and distorted by normal and dark matter in the foreground. This effect is called gravitational lensing and it is one of the tools that Euclid uses to reveal how dark matter is distributed through the Universe When the distortions are very apparent, it is known as ‘strong lensing’, which can result in features such as Einstein rings Euclid will capture some 7000 candidates in the major cosmology data release planned for the end of 2026 and in the order of 100 000 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses by the end of the mission around 100 times more than currently known Euclid will also be able to measure ‘weak’ lensing when the distortions of background sources are much smaller Such subtle distortions can only be detected by analysing large numbers of galaxies in a statistical way Euclid will measure the distorted shapes of billions of galaxies over 10 billion years of cosmic history thus providing a 3D view of the distribution of dark matter in our Universe “Euclid is very quickly covering larger and larger areas of the sky thanks to its unprecedented surveying capabilities,” says Pierre Ferruit, ESA’s Euclid mission manager, who is based at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain, home of the Astronomy Science Archive where Euclid’s data will be made available “This data release highlights the incredible potential we have by combining the strengths of Euclid citizen science and experts into a single discovery engine that will be essential in tackling the vast volume of data returned by Euclid.” Euclid has observed about 2000 square degrees approximately 14% of the total survey area (14 000 square degrees) The three deep fields together comprise 63.1 square degrees.  intended to demonstrate the data products to be expected in the major data releases that follow and to allow scientists to sharpen their data analysis tools in preparation The mission’s first cosmology data will be released to the community in October 2026 multiple passes of the deep field locations will be included in the 2026 release The three deep field previews can now be explored in ESASky from 19 March 12:00 CET onwards: The data release of 19 March 2025 is described in multiple scientific papers which have not yet been through the peer-review process, but which will be submitted to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. A preprint of the papers is available here from 19 March 12:00 CET. Find more detailed information about the data release here. Ohio — The City of Euclid condemned 26 of the 33 buildings at Parkside Gardens on 260th Street on Tuesday Tenants said they had three days to find a new place “This isn't the perfect home by any means," said Kristen Hickman who has called Parkside Gardens home for the last five years But now she is busy packing up all those years of memories Hickman and others were busy packing up their lives and looking for a place to live after Euclid condemned her building and 25 others in the complex for numerous building and fire code violations "It was explaining that we needed to vacate by Friday how am I supposed to explain this to my kids how can you have somebody move out in three days when they don't have the deposit The city of Euclid released the following press release: News 5 reached out to the owners of Parkside Gardens at the leasing office and was given a number to call Friedman Real Estate the company did not return my voicemails or emails “I feel like they just disregarded us as human beings and said you can just continue paying your rent," Hickman said Hickman told News 5 she is waiting to hear back from an apartment complex on whether she will be given the go-ahead to move in that's not the ideal situation for anybody to be in It's a situation that nobody deserves to be in.” the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective has made an astonishing discovery – right in our cosmic backyard Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark Universe on 1 July 2023 Before the spacecraft could begin its survey the team of scientists and engineers on Earth had to make sure everything was working properly but in one fuzzy image Euclid Archive Scientist Bruno Altieri saw a hint of a very special phenomenon and decided to take a closer look “I look at the data from Euclid as it comes in,” explains Bruno but after Euclid made more observations of the area with a lifelong interest in gravitational lensing turned out to be hiding in plain sight in a galaxy not far away is around 590 million light-years from Earth But this is the first time that the ring of light surrounding its centre is detected thanks to Euclid’s high-resolution instruments The ring around the foreground galaxy is made up of light from a farther out bright galaxy This background galaxy is 4.42 billion light-years away and its light has been distorted by gravity on its way to us The far-away galaxy hasn’t been observed before and doesn’t yet have a name “An Einstein ring is an example of strong gravitational lensing,” explains Conor O’Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and lead author of the first scientific paper analysing the ring and they're incredibly useful scientifically because it’s so close to Earth and the alignment makes it very beautiful.” Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that light will bend around objects in space so that they focus the light like a giant lens This gravitational lensing effect is bigger for more massive objects – galaxies and clusters of galaxies It means we can sometimes see the light from distant galaxies that would otherwise be hidden If the alignment is just right, the light from the distant source galaxy bends to form a spectacular ring around the foreground object. These Einstein rings are a rich laboratory for scientists. Studying their gravitational effects can help us learn about the expansion of the Universe, detect the effects of invisible dark matter and dark energy and investigate the background source whose light is bent by dark matter in between us and the source “I find it very intriguing that this ring was observed within a well-known galaxy which was first discovered in 1884,” says Valeria Pettorino “The galaxy has been known to astronomers for a very long time And yet this ring was never observed before finding new things even in places we thought we knew well This discovery is very encouraging for the future of the Euclid mission and demonstrates its fantastic capabilities By exploring how the Universe has expanded and formed over its cosmic history It is expected to find around 100 000 strong lenses but to find one that’s so spectacular – and so close to home – is astonishing and even fewer were imaged at high resolution “Euclid is going to revolutionise the field with all this data we've never had before,” adds Conor Euclid’s main job is searching for the more subtle effects of weak gravitational lensing where background galaxies appear only mildly stretched or displaced scientists will need to analyse billions of galaxies Euclid began its detailed survey of the sky on 14 February 2024 and is gradually creating the most extensive 3D map of the Universe yet means Euclid is on course to uncover many more hidden secrets By Avery WilliamsPublished: Apr 2025 at 11:39 AM EDTEmail This LinkShare on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInEUCLID Ohio (WOIO) - Jellybeanville has come alive for the Easter season in Euclid says the 64th year of the holiday display will feature the “brightest colors ever.” You can visit Jellybeanville outside Kaselak’s home at 25401 Zeman Ave the Easter Bunny will be in the yard from 9 a.m Ohio — Days after Euclid neighbors found out their homes were being condemned many are scrambling to figure out their next move Parkside Gardens residents were loading their vehicles and moving trucks with their belongings Before they were granted a Monday extension most were racing a noon deadline to vacate the Euclid apartment complex What options do we have?’ We have no idea when we’re getting our rent back,” Kristen Hickman said Friday The mother of two told News 5 on Wednesday she had received an email the night before about her family’s fate the city said 26 of 33 buildings at Parkside Gardens were being condemned because of significant building and fire code violations RELATED: Parkside Gardens tenants given 3 days to vacate apartments after City of Euclid condemns 26 buildings My 7-year-old child asked if we were being evicted and I had to sit and explain to her Public records showed the owner of Parkside Gardens is an affiliate of the Chetrit Group a New York-based real estate firm facing foreclosures and complaints about the conditions at its apartment buildings in multiple states a federal judge in New York appointed a receiver—a third-party expert— to oversee a large financially troubled group of Chetrit-owned properties including Parkside Gardens responded to requests for comment Thursday or Friday RELATED: Tenants still searching for answers after given 3 days to vacate condemned Euclid apartments Euclid Municipal Court records obtained Friday show the owners LLC were cited by the city in 2022 for numerous violations a judge ordered a lien on the property for failing to address the issues “I call them slum landlords because people have children here older people live here and they’re not recognizing them or they don’t care,” said Janice Robinson whose son was moving out of the complex Friday Euclid Police and city building inspectors were clearing some of the vacant buildings and securing them with padlocks News 5 crews also saw several repair trucks replacing fire alarms and sprinklers in several buildings The apparent repairs were sending mixed signals to residents who were told their buildings were unsafe Some said they still intended to stay in their current apartments until they got more clarity but there’s still a bunch of us that would like to stay,” said Catherine Doller She said the city told her she would be allowed to stay until at least Monday We reached out to the city for clarification about the extended deadline and apparent repairs but did not receive a response Hickman said she felt fortunate her family was able to find a new apartment to move into immediately Friday morning but she was frustrated for her fellow residents and the lack of communication We’re having to be uprooted from our home because of someone’s negligence and basic disrespect for human beings,” she said “We deserve to be treated with respect and we weren’t The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has scouted out the three areas in the sky where it will eventually provide the deepest observations of its mission making these fields truly ‘deep’ by the end of the nominal mission in 2030 The first glimpse of 63 square degrees of the sky Explore the three deep field previews in ESASky: -          Euclid Deep Field South -          Euclid Deep Field Fornax: -          Euclid Deep Field North: Read more: Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new European space telescope images The images and other information released Wednesday by the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory includes a preview of three cosmic areas that the mission will spy in finer detail mapping the shapes and locations of galaxies billions of light years away A combination image shows examples of galaxies in different shapes all captured by the Euclid space telescope during its first observations of three Deep Field areas of the sky in this handout released by the European Space Agency on March 19 Photo provided by ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA is creating a cosmic atlas to gain clues about how our ever-expanding universe works and how mysterious forces called dark energy and dark matter may play a role The elusive duo make up most of our universe but researchers don’t know exactly what they are the mission hopes to capture glamour shots of over 1.5 billion galaxies © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its Euclid space telescope The images focus on Euclid’s three deep field areas patches of sky the telescope will observe dozens of times to peer deep into the cosmos Though the new release only contains Euclid’s first look into these areas it has already provided astronomers with a treasure trove of data on galaxies and other cosmic phenomena Euclid was launched atop a Falcon 9 in early July 2023 on a mission to map nearly a third of the sky in incredible detail astronomers want to explore the history of the universe and reveal the nature of dark energy and dark matter ESA has published a few glimpses into the telescope’s capabilities and an image representing the first 1% of Euclid’s survey covers the largest area of the sky so far — 63 square degrees or over 300 times the size of a full Moon — and results from only one week of observations Astronomers collaborated with citizen scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) to catalog hundreds of gravitational lenses and the shapes of hundreds of thousands of galaxies “It’s impressive how one observation of the deep field areas has already given us a wealth of data that can be used for a variety of purposes in astronomy: from galaxy shapes to strong lenses among others,” said Euclid project scientist Valeria Pettorino of ESA “We will observe each deep field between 30 and 52 times over Euclid’s six-year mission each time improving the resolution of how we see those areas and the number of objects we manage to observe as well as faint clouds of interstellar gas and dust in our own galaxy Explore the Euclid Deep Field North in ESASky. Euclid’s view of the Cat’s Eye Nebula (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA The Fornax deep field is located in the southern constellation of the same name and covers an area of 12.1 square degrees This area has been well studied by other observatories including the Hubble Space Telescope Euclid’s Fornax deep field also includes the much smaller area studied by NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope for its Deep Field South Explore the Euclid Deep Field Fornax in ESASky. Euclid’s Deep Field South is the largest of the three No other deep survey has studied this area in the constellation of Horologium Euclid’s view on this field reveals a part of the structure of the universe also known as the cosmic web made from galaxy clusters connected by filaments of gas and dark matter Explore the Euclid Deep Field South in ESASky. Euclid has observed 26 million galaxies in the three deep fields some of them as far as 10.5 billion light-years away The Q1 release includes a catalog of 380,000 of these galaxies Collage of galaxies in different shapes selected from Euclid’s Q1 release by Zoobot (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA To quickly categorize the millions of galaxies in Euclid’s observations astronomers enlisted the help of volunteers to train the Zoobot AI algorithm 9,976 citizen scientists from the Galaxy Zoo project classified galaxies in Euclid’s images Zoobot selected and classified the 380,000 galaxies in the newly released catalog “It takes millions of examples to train a good AI model from scratch but we already have millions from other telescopes we only needed about a month of volunteer effort We’re grateful to around 9,000 people who joined in to create enough new examples to fine-tune our models to work well for Euclid,” said Walmsley Collage of strong gravitational lenses in Euclid’s Q1 release Another catalog included in the Q1 release lists nearly 500 strong gravitational lenses Gravitational lensing is the result of gravity distorting the light from objects in space As the light from a distant galaxy passes by a closer object it bends the gravitational pull from the normal and dark matter in the foreground this effect creates a warped image of the distant object astronomers also used AI and citizen scientists but using a different process than for the galaxy catalog the Zoobot algorithm scoured Euclid’s observations for potential strong lenses which were then inspected by over 1,000 citizen scientists from the Space Warps project experts and additional modeling narrowed down the selection to 497 strong lenses “Until now the vast majority of lenses have been found by ground-based telescopes and that’s because lenses are so rare that you need big chunks of sky to find them,” said Walmsley “We simply haven’t had a space telescope that has the area Euclid is the first telescope which can find large numbers of lenses from space it will have found at least an order of magnitude more strong lenses than all previous searches put together.” (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration) The majority of strong lenses in Euclid’s catalog were not observed before Euclid’s observations more than doubled the number of likely lenses that have been imaged from space “That matters because we can see really important details in these lenses that are blurred out from the ground,” said Walmsley Euclid’s Q1 release only includes 0.4% of the number of galaxies the telescope is expected to observe throughout its mission The complete catalog will be so big that astronomers can study the weak variant of gravitational lensing and potentially uncover the nature of dark matter and dark energy The first full release of data to answer these cosmology questions is planned for next year Even though the Q1 release is small compared to the full release, Euclid’s scientists have already written 34 scientific papers based on the data, which will be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. A preprint of these papers was made available alongside the Q1 release. With the data now available to the scientific community and the public Euclid promises to answer many questions about the universe enabling us to explore our cosmic history and the invisible forces shaping our Universe,” said ESA’s Director of Science (Lead image: Euclid’s Deep Field South The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission has today released its first survey data which include images of 26 million galaxies from three deep-field surveys which contain 35-terabytes worth of information (equivalent to 200 days’ worth of streaming high-definition TV) were collected as part of Euclid’s main objective to uncover fresh clues about the dark matter and its effects on the Universe’s galactic network or “cosmic web.” “Today is a milestone for our dark matter ‘detective,’” says Carole Mundell “The community has been waiting a long time for this day to come.” The Euclid Space Telescope was designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark energy and dark matter that makes up 95% of the Universe Euclid is equipped with a 600-mexapixel camera that records visible light a spectrometer that records near-infrared light and a photometer that can determine the redshift of galaxies From its viewing location at the second Lagrange point (a point of gravitational equilibrium between Earth and the Sun) the satellite will scan the sky for six years Euclid will reimage its three deep-field survey areas at least 30 times with each image increasing the resolution with which scientists can view those areas and the number of objects they can see Details about the surveys and other mission objectives are included in 34 papers that are being published on arXiv today in conjunction with the data release The data release includes a catalog of 380,000 galaxies which have been classified according to features such as spiral arms and tidal tails (elongated star regions seen around merging galaxies) 500 are identified as strong-lensing candidates which means that the candidate galaxy’s image appears to have been distorted by the gravitational effect of a foreground galaxy and its accompanying dark matter most strong-lensing candidates have been found by ground-based telescopes That’s because they are comparatively rare Previous space telescopes have not had the viewing area or the sensitivity to find them in large numbers a researcher at the University of Toronto and a member of the Euclid Consortium Euclid is the first telescope that can find large numbers of strong-lensing systems from space With just one week’s worth of data “we’ve more than doubled the number of likely [strong] lenses” he says because we can see really important details in these lenses that are blurred out from the ground.” as well as producing the catalog of galaxies was made possible using a combination of citizen science and artificial intelligence (AI) Volunteers were asked to classify galaxies in Euclid data and this information was then fed into an AI algorithm as training data “A large sample [of galaxies] is necessary to let us untangle all the different factors—supernova dark matter—that shape each galaxy…but it’s impossible [for a human] to look at all of them,” Walmsley says seven days a week to catalog every object that Euclid will find “We only needed about a month’s worth of volunteer effort…to create enough examples to fine-tune our models to work well for Euclid,” he says The catalog of strong gravitational lenses is a highlight of this first data release for the scientists involved “It was not obvious we would be able to detect so many of them,” says Valeria Pettorino “Seeing them…it’s quite impressive.” While this data release has not yet been used to explore the nature of dark energy and dark matter Pettorino notes that its impact can already be seen in the distribution of galaxies: Rather than fill up space uniformly galaxies group into filaments that crisscross the Universe we can see a hint of the cosmic web,” Pettorino says The shape of this web depends on dark matter’s gravity and dark energy’s expansion Euclid will take more detailed images of this cosmic web over the next six years but Pettorino says that this first data should already be enough to get a “hint” about how galaxies behave depending on how close they lie to a filament such as supernovae and quasars—the data contain one quasar that is 12 billion years old “Scientists have a lot of work ahead of them in the next six years but it is going to be phenomenally exciting and groundbreaking work,” Mundell says Katherine Wright is the Deputy Editor of Physics Magazine Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates. Read More » The results of a survey of middle-aged pulsars suggest that a feature previously seen around a handful of pulsars might be ubiquitous. Read More » Researchers have turned NASA’s Parker Solar Probe into a dark-matter detector, taking advantage of its close encounters with the Sun to search for dark-photon signals. Read More » Researchers have shown that they can distribute quantum keys under realistic conditions using commercial lasers Student enrollment and guaranteed financial support are expected to fall amid anticipation of federal budget cuts Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates More Recent Articles » Sign up to receive weekly email alerts from Physics Magazine Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that the user has read and agrees to our Terms and Conditions and any applicable Subscription Agreement This zoomed-in image of Euclid's Deep Field South contains a tiny fraction of the galaxies the telescope will image during its six-year mission The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy throughout the universe The survey data, released March 19, includes initial scans of three regions that Euclid will observe regularly, as well as detailed classifications of more than 380,000 galaxies — a mere 0.4% of the galaxies scientists expect to catalog over the mission's planned six-year lifespan "The full potential of Euclid to learn more about dark matter and dark energy from the large-scale structure of the cosmic web will be reached only when it has completed its entire survey," Clotilde Laigle a Euclid Consortium scientist at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris "Yet the volume of this first data release already offers us a unique first glance at the large-scale organization of galaxies which we can use to learn more about galaxy formation over time." Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox "We will observe each deep field between 30 and 52 times over Euclid's six year mission, each time improving the resolution of how we see those areas, and the number of objects we manage to observe," Valeria Pettorino "Just think of the discoveries that await us." —Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth — and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind it "We're looking at galaxies from inside to out from how their internal structures govern their evolution to how the external environment shapes their transformation over time," Laigle said in the statement "Euclid is a goldmine of data and its impact will be far-reaching from galaxy evolution to the bigger-picture cosmology goals of the mission." Skyler WareSocial Links NavigationLive Science ContributorSkyler Ware is a freelance science journalist covering chemistry She was a 2023 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at Science News Her work has also appeared in Science News Explores you will then be prompted to enter your display name Physicists create 'black hole bomb' for first time on Earth Amateur astronomer captures detailed photos of Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies from backyard observatory A zoomed-in image of the Einstein ring created by the gravitational lens in the form of the galaxy NGC 6505 An infographic explains the ins and outs of gravitational lensing Image of the galaxy NGC 6505: the Einstein ring created by this gravitational lens can be seen in the center of the image "This first strong gravitational lens discovered by Euclid has unique characteristics." this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers to "weigh" the dark matter at the heart of a galaxy almost 600 million light-years away The gravitational lens in question is the galaxy NGC 6505 located around 590 million light-years away Though this sounds like an incredible distance this is actually relatively close for a gravitational lens "This first strong gravitational lens discovered by Euclid has unique characteristics," team member and National Institute for Astrophysics researcher Massimo Meneghetti said in a statement "It is truly rare to find a galaxy relatively close to us like this one found in the NGC catalog (New Galaxy Catalog) one of the catalogs of nearby galaxies that acts as a strong gravitational lens." Galaxies so close to the Milky Way are generally not able to focus the light of background sources strongly enough to form multiple images  — that is unless they contain enormous amounts of matter in their central regions astronomer Bruno Altieri."The formation of complete Einstein rings like that of NGC 6505 is an even rarer event because it requires that the lens galaxy and the source galaxy are perfectly aligned with our telescope," Meneghetti continued we do not expect Euclid to observe many lenses like NGC 6505 "Even considering the large area of sky that will be covered during the mission we expect to be able to discover at most 20 lenses like this one.” just two months after its July 2023 launch and during its mission verification phase the distribution of light from a background source is intrinsically tied to the mass of the gravitational lens That means that this Einstein ring can be used as a probe of the mass distribution of that galaxy, including the mass of its otherwise invisible dark matter. because Altieri’s lens has a radius smaller than NGC 6505 the team was able to investigate the composition and structure of the galaxy's central regions where it is dominated by stars and where dark matter is less prominent so the central regions of galaxies are truly peculiar." — There's a mystery in our universe's expansion rate and the Hubble Space Telescope is on the case — Surprise! The universe's expansion rate may vary from place to place — Astronomers reevaluate the age of the universe Images like this perfect Einstein Ring are manifestations of strong gravitational lensing Euclid will use the minor gravitational distortion of "weak gravitational lensing" to study the dark universe.Though Euclid is expected to uncover just around 20 strong gravitational lens events like Altieri's lens the space telescope is expected to find over one hundred thousand other gravitational lenses in the 14,000 square degrees of the sky it will observe during its mission Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. Robert LeaSocial Links NavigationSenior WriterRobert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K whose articles have been published in Physics World He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University James Webb Space Telescope captures thousands of galaxies in a cosmic 'feast' (image) Astronomers gaze into 'dark nebula' 60 times the size of the solar system (video) The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight: Here's how to see fragments of Halley's comet burn up in the atmosphere Ohio — After the City of Euclid condemned 26 of the 33 buildings at Parkside Gardens some tenants have found a new lease on life while others are still looking for a new home Tenants were given just three days to vacate last week Kristen Hickman was one of those who was left scrambling to find a new place to live She considered herself lucky after moving into her new apartment building on Saturday my kids have to stay inside," Hickman said She has a beautiful view of the lake from her balcony I am forever grateful that I could do that but there are still a lot of tenants that don't have that right now some tenants we talked to last week are still at Parkside Gardens nearly a week following the deadline to vacate RELATED: Deadline passed, but many Parkside Gardens residents still without a place to stay Both Catherine Dollar and Shea Short told me Thursday they still have no place to move to News 5 was there when the fire system repairmen were at Parkside Gardens Short told us they repaired the sprinkler system in her building— a building that has been condemned Tenants did receive an email Wednesday night from Parkside Gardens Hickman told News 5 that the email contradicts itself and did not clarify whether tenants will get their March rent or security deposit back But then they also said in that same sentence that there were still apartments available at Parkside," said Hickman News 5 reached out to the owners of Parkside Gardens The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses By Matthew Sparkes A sea of galaxies photographed by the Euclid space telescope Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies some as far off as 10.5 billion light years Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in July 2023 and sent back its first images in November that year. During a six-year mission, it will image about one-third of the sky, building the most detailed 3D map of the cosmos ever created. Once complete, this survey will help to illuminate how dark matter and dark energy behave on cosmic scales Read more Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe Euclid will pass over these regions between 30 and 52 times Will Percival at the University of Waterloo in Canada says the current batch of images is less than half a per cent of what Euclid will gather over the mission but there is already plenty for researchers to work with “For a lot of individual galaxies and their properties and that’s because nobody has done a space-based survey in the near infrared and the optical like this before,” he says “It’s not quite the same quality as HST [the Hubble Space Telescope] and we’re not just pointing and shooting at individual objects – we’re doing a survey.” Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month Researchers have already used the Euclid data to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses These phenomena are formed when the gravity of an object in the foreground distorts light from a distant galaxy scientists had to hunt these down individually and get HST to point at them and collect more images Now astronomers can search the survey data from Euclid and find many at once which will help gather insights into the evolution of galaxies and the universe researchers were able to find and catalogue 500 galaxies with strong gravitational lensing in this first batch of data alone “The statistics are phenomenal,” says Percival “Euclid’s going to get 200 times this amount of data in the end.” The data released so far represents just a single week of images from Euclid but it adds up to some 35 terabytes – the equivalent of 200 days of high-quality video streaming will be a whole year’s worth of images covering 2000 square degrees and requiring more than 2000 terabytes of storage space Looking at each galaxy manually could take over a hundred years, so AI has been used to massively speed up the process, says Mike Walmsley at the University of Toronto Experience the astronomical highlights of Chile Visit some of the world’s most technologically advanced observatories and stargaze beneath some of the clearest skies on earth the City of Cleveland is unrolling a new payment process for on-street parking The ParkMobile app will be used in University Circle and throughout the city.  Metered parking will be added along Martin Luther King Jr Those parking in these areas will be required to pay via the ParkMobile app once the signage will be placed There will be a two-week grace period for these areas during which time only warnings will be given Learn more about the affected areas and get information on how to use the ParkMobile app. Interested in participating in a research study Looking for an upcoming event in your department Subscribe to The Daily Items that appear in the Community Postings section are submitted by visitors Posts are reviewed to ensure they are appropriate for our audience but typically are not edited by University Marketing and Communications Case Western Reserve University is committed to academic freedom and promoting diversity of thought The views of those who speak on our campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout the universe the European Space Agency announced on Monday The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies Photos of the Einstein Ring show a bright ball of light in the center with a bright a galaxy that astronomers say is nearby though it is hundreds of millions of light-years away The galaxy, NGC 6505, itself is not new to scientists and has been studied since the 19th century, Jacqueline McCleary assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University says which had never been seen around this galaxy before was suddenly easy to find because of Euclid's high resolution and sensitivity "You'd think that after generations of telescopes have looked at this thing for a century and change we'd have figured out everything that there is to know about it right "With other previous generations of telescope this Einstein Ring was essentially drowned out by the light of this big galaxy." Named after Albert Einstein, who predicted the bending of light through his theory of relativity, the first known Einstein Ring was discovered in 1987. Several have been discovered in the decades since An Einstein Ring is a ring of light around a form of dark matter, galaxy or cluster of galaxies, says Mustapha Ishak an astrophysics professor at the University of Texas at Dallas When light from a galaxy bends while moving past a massive object such as another galaxy or cluster of galaxies this perfect alignment of all three makes the ring visible to the observer NGC 6505 is in alignment with another galaxy that is 4.42 billion light-years away and has never been observed and does not have a name "It looks to us like a ring because light is focused at that place in the shape of a ring," Ishak tells NPR They are not visible to the naked eye and can only be seen with a telescope like Euclid The color of the ring is the same color of the galaxy "This effect can result in several types of image configurations," Huang tells NPR about strong gravitational lenses adding that the Einstein Ring is the most striking one The alignment creating the Einstein Ring will remain for some time allowing astronomers to continue studying it And telescopes like Euclid likely will give scientists a better understanding of dark matter invisible matter that has gravitational effects But McCleary hopes it will lead to more "dramatic discoveries" and give scientists a peek into the mysteries of the universe "We'll be able to study distant old galaxies from early in the universe's history in far better detail and in far greater numbers than we have been able to up to this point," McCleary says Become an NPR sponsor This is Euclid’s Deep Field North the space telescope has already spotted more than ten million galaxies in this field Euclid will make 32 observations of this field to reach its full depth.  Below the centre-left of the image lies the Cat’s Eye Nebula this nebula is a visual ‘fossil record’ of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star This dying star is shedding its outer colourful shells.  A bit higher to the right of the centre of the image, a large group of galaxies can be spotted, dominated by the large galaxy NGC 6505. This galaxy hosts the first Einstein Ring that Euclid discovered and is located 590 million light-years away The faint blue structures in the image are dim clouds in between the stars in our own galaxy also called ‘galactic cirrus’ because they look like cirrus clouds Euclid is able to see these clouds with its very sensitive visible light camera because they reflect optical light from the Milky Way Euclid’s Deep Field North has an area of 22.9 square degrees and is located very close to the north ecliptic pole, in the constellation Draco, the dragon. The proximity to the ecliptic pole ensures maximum coverage throughout the year; the exact position was chosen to obtain maximum overlap with one of the deep fields surveyed by NASA's infrared workhorse, the Spitzer Space Telescope Explore this image in ESASky Read more [Image description: On a black background lies a rectangular shape with several stepped notches cut out of its corners oriented with its longest edges running from bottom left to top right Contained within the shape are more than ten million galaxies Wispy faint blue cloud-like structures permeate the image representing gas and dust in between the stars in our own galaxy.] Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Astronomers use the term “dark energy” in reference to the unknown cause of this accelerated expansion. The new images were released at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan on Oct. 15. This section of the Euclid mosaic is zoomed in 36 times, revealing the core of galaxy cluster Abell 3381, 470 million light-years from Earth. The image, made using both visible and infrared light, shows galaxies of different shapes and sizes, including elliptical, spiral, and dwarf galaxies. This section of the Euclid mosaic is zoomed in 600 times. A single spiral galaxy is visible in great detail within cluster Abell 3381, 470 million light-years away from us. Data from both the visible and infrared light instruments on Euclid are included. The location and actual size of the newly released Euclid mosaic is highlighted in yellow on a map of the entire sky captured by ESA’s Planck mission and a star map from ESA’s Gaia mission The mosaic contains 260 observations in visible and infrared light made between March 25 and April 8 of this year Euclid covered 132 square degrees of the southern sky — more than 500 times the area of the sky covered by a full Moon The mosaic accounts for 1% of the wide survey Euclid will conduct over six years and motions of billions of galaxies out to a distance of more than 10 billion light-years it will create the largest 3D cosmic map ever made Dive into a snippet of the great cosmic atlas being produced by the ESA Euclid mission This video zooms in on a 208-gigapixel mosaic containing about 14 million galaxies and covering a portion of the southern sky more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth This first piece of the map already contains around 100 million stars and galaxies. Some 14 million of these galaxies could be used by Euclid to study the hidden influence of dark energy on the universe Even though this patch of space shows only 1% of Euclid’s total survey area, the spacecraft’s sensitive cameras captured an incredible number of objects in great detail. Enlarging the image by a factor of 600 reveals the intricate structure of a spiral galaxy in galaxy cluster Abell 3381, 470 million light-years away. This image shows an area of the Euclid mosaic zoomed in 150 times The combination of visible and infrared light reveals galaxies that are interacting with each other in cluster Abell 3381 “What really strikes me about these new images is the tremendous range in physical scale,” said JPL’s Mike Seiffert project scientist for the NASA contribution to Euclid “The images capture detail from clusters of stars near an individual galaxy to some of the largest structures in the universe We are beginning to see the first hints of what the full Euclid data will look like when it reaches the completion of the prime survey.” Visble as well are clouds of gas and dust located between the stars in our own galaxy Sometimes called “galactic cirrus” because they look like cirrus clouds at Earth these clouds can be observed by Euclid’s visible-light camera because they reflect visible light from the Milky Way The mosaic released today is taste of what’s to come from Euclid. The mission plans to release 53 square degrees of the Euclid survey, including a preview of the Euclid Deep Field areas in March 2025 and to release its first year of cosmology data in 2026 NASA’s forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman mission will also study dark energy — in ways that are complementary to Euclid Mission planners will use Euclid’s findings to inform Roman’s dark energy work Roman will study a smaller section of sky than Euclid but will provide higher-resolution images of millions of galaxies and peer deeper into the universe’s past find and investigate planets throughout our galaxy study objects on the outskirts of our solar system JPL led the procurement and delivery of the NISP detectors as well https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/euclid/main/index.html https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov media@esa.int NASA’s Juno Mission Gets Under Jupiter’s and Io’s Surface Mars. NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop Solar System. 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Ohio — Residents of a neighborhood in Euclid are questioning the delay in repairing a water main break on Westport Avenue near E He said the situation has become a frozen mess for residents “You can see the water coming out of the street and it’s just flowing down,” Vinal said Vinal has been scratching his head over it “They’ve done nothing to turn the water off to even try and fix the problem,” Vinal said the water cannot find its way to the sewer and an ice formation continues to grow along E "What my kids have been calling it is ice mounting,” Vinal said Every car that splashes it (water) just adds to it blocking driveways and sidewalks and forcing drivers to navigate around the obstacle you have to swerve over into the turning lane just to go down the street,” Vinal said Vinal said his wife reported the leak when it first began but there seemed to be a lack of urgency to address it you got a problem but it seems like it’s not being taken care of?” I asked him “It’s extremely frustrating because we’re taxpayers like everybody else,” Vinal said I asked Snowden what he thinks the hold-up is Cleveland Water is responsible for addressing the issue I reached out to them Friday morning for more information They pointed out that there has been an increase in water main breaks during the winter and explained that the leak on Westport Avenue is on a six-inch valve “The break was reported via our 24/7 Emergency Line earlier this month An investigator was on site and assessed the break An increase in water main breaks during the winter months is common are working hard to address the breaks as quickly as possible We prioritize breaks based on several factors A crew is currently on site working to repair the break We have been in communication with Euclid’s service department and coordinated salt to be applied to the area." crews were in the neighborhood preparing for repairs they’re here now because you guys are out here." Cleveland Water employees went door-to-door to inform residents about the work and the temporary disruption to their water service Vinal expressed concern about the aftermath the ‘ice mountain’ will need to be broken up and removed to prevent further issues It’s going to be a mess out here,” Vinal said “the valve has been replaced and the crew is finishing up the repair.“ News 5 returned to the "ice mountain" to see that work is being done to take the ice down This Thursday, March 20, the City of South Euclid will host its inaugural Career Fair with more than 15 local businesses attending The free public event will be held in the community room at South Euclid City Hall “The City of South Euclid decided to host a Career Fair to promote the positions the city has available, as well as to offer South Euclid businesses and businesses around the region the opportunity to promote their positions,” says Michael Love, South Euclid director of planning and development “We also worked to recruit a diverse range of businesses so there are opportunities available for all job seekers no matter where they are at in their career journey.” and municipal court will be present at the event to promote their current open positions and jobs that may be available in the future “We have diverse employers in the community—from light manufacturing to retail and professional services,” says South Euclid parks & recreation director Daniel Subwick “We hope to connect prospective candidates with potential employers to support our local and regional economies.” Subwick suggests attendees dress professionally “Attendees should bring copies of their resumes and a tote bag for collecting pamphlets and fliers,” he says they should bring a positive mindset!” Both Love and Subwick say they hope to make the career fair an annual or bi-annual event A sample of the 2,600 dwarf galaxies seen in Euclid data "This work highlights Euclid’s remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies enabling a comprehensive view of galaxy formation and evolution across diverse mass scales The latest wide-scale analysis of data from the Euclid Space Telescope has demonstrated just how big of an impact this European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft is set to have on science sometimes good things come in small packages "We took advantage of the unprecedented depth and field of view of the Euclid data," team leader Francine Marleau of the University of Innsbruck said in a statement "This work highlights Euclid's remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies It is believed that dwarf galaxies are created in the early stages of the development of large galaxies or when collisions between two larger galaxies cause streams of material the study and characterization of dwarf galaxies is important for understanding the evolution of galaxies The low stellar content of dwarf galaxies makes them faint and difficult to observe But that's why this massive Euclid haul of dwarf galaxies is such a big deal Marleau and colleagues were able to go beyond merely identifying dwarf galaxy candidates They were also able to characterize many of these small conglomerations of stars and determine the distance to these galaxies as well as assess their stellar masses and the type of environments they dwell in Of the galaxies identified, the team said 58% are elliptical dwarf galaxies and 42% are irregular dwarf galaxies. They found that just 1% of the dwarf galaxies observed by Euclid for this study are rich in globular clusters nearly spherical collections of stars that usually contain the oldest stars found in a galaxy Almost 7% of the dwarf galaxies were Blue Compact Dwarfs, which are small, irregular galaxies characterized by a high rate of star formation. This starburst activity results in a blue-colored, compact center, the coloration of which is due to young, hot massive stars. — These dwarf galaxies in the Hydra cluster are baffling scientists: 'We found something we didn't expect' — Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe Marleau and colleagues will now continue to use Euclid to discover and catalog more dwarf galaxies A pre-peer-reviewed version of the team's research is available on the paper repository site arXiv. Scientists find hints of the dark universe in 3D maps of the cosmos 'Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter 'Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith' hit theaters.. the tie-in game had already spoiled the ending The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has scouted out the three areas in the sky where it will eventually provide the deepest observations of its mission -          Euclid Deep Field South -          Euclid Deep Field Fornax: -          Euclid Deep Field North: Read more: Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields Access the related broadcast quality video material Discover the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas and marvel at millions of stars and galaxies captured in pristine detail, in a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic. The mosaic covers an area of the Southern Sky more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth This video takes you through a rare sky dive Starting from a vast cosmic panorama bedazzled by some 14 million galaxies a series of ever-deeper zooms brings you to a crisp view of a swirling spiral galaxy in a final image enlarged 600 times compared to the full mosaic.   Although the scenes are enticing, they are not taken for their beauty, but to help us advance our understanding of the cosmos. Many of the 14 million galaxies in the initial vista will be used to study the hidden influence of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe Unveiled as a teaser of the wide survey the mosaic accounts for 1% of the area that Euclid will cover over six years and was obtained by combining 260 observations collected in just two weeks This first chunk of Euclid’s survey was revealed on 15 October 2024 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan by ESA’s Director General Josef Aschbacher and Director of Science Carole Mundell Read more A vast array of galaxies as seen in a new image of the Euclid space telescope The location of the Euclid Deep Fields (yellow) seen in an all-sky view from Gaia's star map and Planck's dust map The bright horizontal band corresponds to the plane of our Milky Way galaxy Euclid's Deep Field North with an area of 22.9 square degrees located very close to the north ecliptic pole Euclid's Deep Field Fornax spans 12.1 square degrees and is located in the southern constellation Fornax Euclid’s Deep Field South covers 28.1 square degrees in the southern constellation of Horologium Galaxies in different shapes captured by Euclid during its first observations of the Deep Field areas An area of Euclid’s Deep Field South zoomed in 70 times compared to the large mosaic A diagram (not to scale) of how gravitational lensing works A sample of the 500 gravitational lenses that Euclid captured in its first observations of the Deep Field areas Euclid is not only a dark universe detective We will look back 10 billion years in cosmic history." The day that astronomers have been waiting for is here the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Euclid released its first data to the public and to the scientific community Euclid's potential to make a difference in this quest has led ESA scientists to dub the spacecraft their "dark universe detective." But this first data release shows that Euclid is capable of delivering so much more and everything we see around us composes only 5% of the universe's total matter and energy "The other 95% is dark and is unknown," she continued "The whole purpose of Euclid is really to put those two together to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy and how they're coupled in the universe," Mundell said For this first data release, Euclid, which launched in July 2023 and began observations proper in Feb spent just one week scanning three patches of the sky over which it will make its deepest observations in the future While Euclid will pass over these patches many more times before its primary mission draws to a close in 2030, the first glimpse of these areas, about as wide in the sky as 300 full moons, provides an awe-inspiring preview of the sheer scale of the cosmic atlas that Euclid will build this atlas will cover around one-third of the entire night sky over Earth The three deep fleids observed by Euclid are Euclid Deep Field North Below is the image Euclid captured of Euclid Deep Field North containing over 10 million galaxies, the Cat’s Eye Nebula (center-left) a stellar remnant around 3,000 light-years away and a large group of galaxies dominated by the large galaxy NGC 6505 right of center) Euclid will make a total of 32 sweeps of this region of the sky before 2030 The next image represents Euclid's first look at the region dubbed Euclid Deep Field Fornax in which it has already seen 4.5 million galaxies Euclid will make 52 observations of this region of space Less well-studied is Euclid Deep Field South (below) which has not been assessed by any other deep sky survey thus far The space telescope has already spotted more than 11 million galaxies in this field Euclid observed hints at a large-scale structure of the universe called the cosmic web consisting of threads of gas and dark matter stretching between clusters of galaxies "It's impressive how one observation of the deep field areas has already given us a wealth of data that can be used for a variety of purposes in astronomy: from galaxy shapes to strong lenses among others," ESA Euclid project scientist Valeria Pettorino said "We will observe each deep field between 30 and 52 times over Euclid's six-year mission Because galaxies come together in a web of dark matter Euclid can also learn more about this mysterious stuff by measuring the distribution of the millions of galaxies visible in each of its deep fields this distribution is also important to understand how dark energy has expanded the fabric of space The observations of these galaxies in this first release alone constituted 35 terabytes of data collected over one week "To give you a feeling that 35 terabytes of data are the equivalent of 200 days of video streaming at the highest quality," Pettorino said on Monday then you would be that would be the equivalent of 35 terabytes." The ESA project scientist added that next year Euclid will release its first year of observations advising against engaging in such a binge watch The stunning zoomed-in image of the Euclid Deep Field South below shows various galaxy clusters and the light between these galaxies so-called "intracluster light." The image represents a 70-times zoom-in on the original mosaic demonstrating why so much data is gobbled up in these Euclid images Euclid consortium member Mike Walmsley of the University of Toronto explained that no human could possibly hope to analyze all of this data, so scientists have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to perform and initially filter this data picking out galaxies for further investigation The galaxies the AI selects are then passed along to citizen scientists for them to identify aspects of these galaxies such as their shape and brightness and characteristics like spiral arms the latter of which indicate merging galaxies "We're at a pivotal moment in terms of how we tackle large-scale surveys in astronomy AI is a fundamental and necessary part of our process in order to fully exploit Euclid's vast dataset," Walmsley added "We're building the tools as well as providing the measurements we can deliver cutting-edge science in a matter of weeks compared with the years-long process of analyzing big surveys like these in the past." The Euclid consortium will need all the help it can get the galaxies featured in the data released thus far represent just 0.4% of the total number of galaxies of similar resolution expected to be imaged over Euclid's lifetime from how their internal structures govern their evolution to how the external environment shapes their transformation over time," added Laigle One of the most exciting aspects of this first Euclid data release is the revelation of extraordinary events in spacetime called "gravitational lenses." These distortions of distant objects occur when light from a background object passes a massive object Because objects with mass cause the very fabric of space and time to warp (that's general relativity folks) when light passes these intervening objects it is also curved Euclid had already spotted a stunning Einstein ring which was revealed to the public back in Feb but following the analysis of this new week's worth of data AI and citizen scientists uncovered a further 500 examples of galaxy gravitational lenses amplifying light from a distant background galaxy Lenses like this are rare because both the background galaxy and the lensing galaxy have to be perfectly aligned from Earth for this effect to work Almost all of these new Euclid gravitational lens arrangements were previously unknown the vast majority of lenses have been found by ground-based telescopes that is because lenses are so rare you need vast chunks of the sky to find them and we simply haven't had a space telescope with the area and the resolution and the sensitivity to do that," Walmsley said "Euclid is the first space telescope which can find a large number of lenses from space." Euclid is expected to have found 7,000 gravitational lens candidates the Euclid consortium expects the dark universe detective spacecraft to have uncovered somewhere in the region of 100,000 galaxy-galaxy-strong lenses That is around 100 times more strong gravitational lenses than is currently known Euclid will also be on the hunt for weakly lensed background galaxies with more subtle distortions These distortions are too subtle to be seen in individual galaxies but can be detected when considering large samples of background sources Weak lensing is key to investigating the warping of spacetime due to the distribution of invisible dark matter in lensing galaxies — How will Europe's Euclid space telescope see into the dark universe? but tiny is not the right word," Mundell concluded "Scientists have a lot of work ahead of them in the next six years but it's going to be phenomenally exciting and very The 36 scientific papers that emerged from this first data drop from Euclid are available here. And you fancy joining the 9976 citizen scientists of the GalaxyZoo, who helped classify the galaxies in Euclid's first deep field images, check out the Zooiverse website of the project here. What would it be like living on Tatooine from 'Star Wars' This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us A whole 'population' of minimoons may be lurking near Earth US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock The ancient Greek geometer Euclid presented a list of five axioms he held to be self-evidently true You can draw a line between any two points You can draw a circle at any point with any radius All triangles have internal angles that add up to 180 degrees Euclidean geometry is what we learn at school The internal angles of a triangle on a curved surface do not add up to 180 degrees – the topic of today’s puzzles.1 Imagine drawing a straight line from the North Pole to a point on the Equator Can you draw two more identical lines to make a triangle where all the internal angles are right angles (i.e Can you find a way to cover the Earth with equilateral triangles that have internal angles of 120 degrees (i.e These triangles must all be the same size and there must be no overlaps or gaps between them (Hint: think about drawing triangles side by side.) Can you draw two identical right-angled triangles on the donut so they perfectly cover its surface And what will the sum of the six internal angles of these two triangles add up to a cylinder that curves and joins itself in a loop Today’s puzzles were set by Adam Kucharski who is a maths professor at the London School of Tropical Medicine and a popular science author In his brilliant new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Adam tells the story of how nineteenth century thinkers began to challenge Euclid’s self evident truths – and how this shaped the history of mathematics which is Adam’s area of professional expertise Proof by Adam Kucharski is out in the UK on Thursday and available at the Guardian Bookshop I’ve been setting a puzzle here on alternate Mondays since 2015. I’m always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInSOUTH EUCLID Ohio (WOIO) - The South Euclid Fire Department responded to a car fire Friday morning that damaged two homes Friday crews were dispatched to a home on Merrymound Road for a minivan on fire in a driveway starting to spread to surrounding homes South Euclid said mutual aid was immediately dispatched due to the nature of the call when crews arrived they found the minivan fully involved in the fire and the siding on both homes Firefighters said the fire was extinguished quickly The damage to the homes was contained to the exterior siding Firefighters said a nearby fence was also damaged and the fire caused the electrical lines to one of the houses to burn and fall to the ground There were no injuries reported by the residents or firefighters Firefighters said the cause of the fire is under investigation An ethereal dance of misty clouds of interstellar dust with a myriad of distant stars and galaxies speckled like paint drops over a black canvas. This is a sonification of a breathtaking image taken by ESA's Euclid space telescope of the young star-forming region Messier 78.  The sonification offers a different representation of the data collected by Euclid and lets us explore the stellar nurseries in M78 through sound Close your eyes and listen to let the cosmic image be drawn by your mind’s eye or watch as the traceback line in this video follows the sounds to colour the image from left to right.   The twinkling sounds of various pitches and volumes represent the galaxies and stars in the frame The pitch of the sound points towards where we see the dot of light in the image Higher pitches tell us that a star or galaxy appears further at the top in the image along the traceback line.   The brightness of these objects in and around M78 are represented by the volume of the twinkles Whenever we hear a particularly loud clink the star or galaxy that Euclid observed appears particularly bright in the image.  made up of two chords which represent different regions in Messier 78 This sound intensifies as the traceback line approaches first the brightest and later the densest regions in the nebula.   The first two deeper crescendos in this undertone indicate two patches in the image where the most intense colour is blue/purple. These appear as two ‘cavities’ in M78 where newly forming stars carve out and illuminate the dust and gas in which they were born.  The chords intensify a third time at a slightly higher pitch corresponding to the red-orange colours in the image, as the sound draws over the densest star-forming region of the frame This stellar nursery is hidden by a layer of dust and gas that is so thick that it obscures almost all the light of the young stars within it As the sound traces over the entire Euclid image, these different tones together form a cosmic symphony that represents the image of Messier 78, and the stars and galaxies that lie behind and within it. You can read more about this image that was first revealed to the eyes of the world earlier this year here Many thanks to Klaus Nielsen (DTU Space / Maple Pools) for making the sonification in this video. If you would like to hear more sonifications and music by this artist, please visit: https://linktr.ee/maplepools