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ESA's Space Warps Engages Public to Find 10,000 Euclid Lenses

4/30/2026

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ESA in France launched Space Warps citizen-science project to enlist public in spotting strong gravitational lenses in Euclid data.
The project will display about 300,000 AI-selected images from 72 million galaxies, with scientists expecting volunteers to uncover more than 10,000 lenses—four-fold the total found in 50 years.
More than 2,500 volunteers have signed up on Zooniverse after March 2025 data from the first 0.04 % of Euclid observations produced 500 galaxy-galaxy lenses, most unknown.

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ESA in France launched Space Warps citizen-science project to enlist public in spotting strong gravitational lenses in Euclid data.
The project will display about 300,000 AI-selected images from 72 million galaxies, with scientists expecting volunteers to uncover more than 10,000 lenses—four-fold the total found in 50 years.
More than 2,500 volunteers have signed up on Zooniverse after March 2025 data from the first 0.04 % of Euclid observations produced 500 galaxy-galaxy lenses, most unknown.