Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28d This is the most detailed view of the centre of the Milky Way ever acquired—taken by ESA's Euclid space telescope on 23 March 2025. There's about 60 million stars in this view. On *average*, there's about one exoplanet per star. So there's about 60 million planets in this view.
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It's an incredible image.
Read more about how, and why, this image was acquired: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/CFHT/J.-C. Cuillandre/E. Bertin
How many of those have Slartibartfast’s signature on them?
we are stardust
You can really get lost in it, it’s absolutely stunning! 🤩 eucliduk.net/q2release.html
This is none of my business
Hm. I imagine interstellar communication would be a lot more likely to happen in this region of the galaxy.
Hopefully at least one of them has more intelligent life than Earth does. 🤞
Is there only one exoplanet per star on average, or is it just that they may have more and we can't detect them? It seems unlikely that our star would have eight times as many planets as the average
Wow! The numbers are virtually unfathomable. And how many galaxies are there?