<ul><li>The European Space Agency's Euclid mission has captured images of 26m galaxies, providing researchers with unprecedented insight into the forces that shape the cosmos.</li><li>The first batch of survey data has allowed researchers to create a detailed catalogue of 380,000 galaxies, revealing the rich variation in galactic structures.</li><li>Observations from Euclid have captured 500 strong gravitational lensing events, helping to shed light on the nature and clumpiness of dark matter.</li><li>Euclid is expected to capture images of more than 1.5bn galaxies over six years, potentially leading to new discoveries about the nature of dark matter and dark energy.</li></ul>

Scientists hail ‘avalanche of discoveries’ from Euclid space telescope

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