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We're the UK-based 🇬🇧 scientists working on ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope. We're on a mission to map the dark universe! 🔭 🏠 eucliduk.net
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Want to hear all about the early science from Euclid? 🛰️ 🌌 Or perhaps how geophysicists are working with British farmers to help tackle challenges with food production in the UK? 🧑‍🌾 🚜 Well, make sure you grab a FREE ticket for our May Specialist Discussion Meetings! ⤵️

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(2/2) 🔭🔬"It was when I was a kid. I've always known that I wanted to do astrophysics. But someone ended up telling me when I was quite young that there's no job, so stop it. So I did, I stopped! I did an engineering degree, but by chance I was able to do a Masters in Astrophysics at the same time...

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(1/2) 🔭🔬 "Mostly I’m excited about the quality of the VIS images from Euclid. Like, they're incredible! I'm used to inspecting visual images, looking for tidal features, and the quality of the spatial resolution that you get is just amazing. It's just a pure pleasure to dive into the images...!

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(3/3) 🔬🔭 "I've been teaching myself bass for a while. In December we had a Christmas Astro Party, and we made an Astro Band for that, and I played bass. Okay, so we had a professor called Pat Roche...

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(2/3) 🔬🔭 "My mum loved astrophysics but there wasn't the opportunity to study it in India. She could only choose between economics, engineering and medicine. So she chose engineering, but she always loved astro and would get me books about astronomy. I remember first seeing a picture of Jupiter...

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(1/3) 🔭🔬 "Yeah, so I have two favourites. One is, it's really cool working with quite a diverse group of people for the first time. Yeah, like in the Lyman break galaxy working package. I'd never collaborated that much with people outside of my university before...

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Check out this groundbaking research from the University of Geneva! 🍪 📖 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23114 The Science Ground Segment team, who take the raw ingredients that #Euclid sees and transform it into data ready for astronomers to use, are currently digesting this exciting news…

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And that’s a wrap on #EuclidConsortiumMeeting2025! Hundreds of #HumansOfEuclid are heading home after catching up in #Leiden 🇳🇱 🌌 Latest data was shown 🚀 Incredible new results shared 😃 Friends were made Thanks to all the organisers and sponsors for such a wonderful week! #Euclid #Space

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It’s a beautiful, sunny morning in Leiden for Day 4️⃣ of the 2025 Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social Meeting ☀️ Natalie Lines, PhD student at University of Portsmouth, yesterday shared how her team found loads of strong gravitational lenses in Euclid’s latest data! (1/3)

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Farewell Gaia! 🥺

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It’s Day 3️⃣ of the 2025 Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social Meeting in Leiden! 🚲 Today we’d like to highlight Chris Duffy from Lancaster University. He shared with us how his team used Euclid data to find transients 💥 before and after they could be seen by other telescopes on Earth! (1/3)

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It’s Day 2 of the 2025 Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social Meeting in Leiden! 🌷 Teresa Matamoro-Zatarain, PhD student at the University of Bristol, yesterday shared her team’s #Euclid discoveries. They saw a number of supermassive black holes gradually accumulating gas in the centres of galaxies! (1/3)

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