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This graphic shows the location of the Euclid Deep Fields (yellow).
This all-sky view is an overlay of ESA Gaia’s star map from its second data release in 2018 and ESA Planck’s dust map from 2014.
The sky is shown in the Galactic coordinate system, with the bright horizontal band corresponding to the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, where most of its stars reside.
[Image description: An oval image showing a projection of the night sky with the bright plane of our Milky Way galaxy running horizontally through the centre. Cloud-like features representing stars and interstellar gas and dust extend above and below the plane. Three small regions are marked in yellow, indicating the locations of Euclid’s three deep field surveys. One is above and to the left of the horizontal plane, the other two are to the bottom right. All three are located in seemingly emptier regions, in between the cloud-like features.]