Myriads of unknown and very distant galaxies, a gigantic cluster of stars captured at a glance as has never happened before, cradles of planets seen by penetrating the curtain of dust that hides them: they are snapshots of the universe as no one has ever seen it, the first 5 scientific images from the Euclid space telescope, presented by the European Space Agency and already considered revolutionary. They are still a test, but they contain traces of the dark matter and energy that occupy 95% of the cosmos and that Euclid will have to help us understand. Italy is collaborating in an important way in this 1.4 billion euro mission.
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