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ScienceApr 21, 2026

ESA opens Euclid Space Warps hunt for gravitational lenses

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid
Image source: ESA News
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ESA and the Euclid Consortium launched Space Warps on Zooniverse to classify strong gravitational-lens candidates in new Euclid imagery.

The project turns Euclid's large survey volume into a human-plus-AI screening pipeline, with roughly 300,000 preselected images expected to surface thousands of lens candidates for dark-matter and dark-energy studies.

Euclid is sending about 100 GB of data to Earth each day, so citizen-science triage is part of how the mission converts raw survey scale into usable catalogs.

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