The Euclid space telescope consortium today released the first set of 5 stunning images of the cosmos take by the dark matter/energy hunter telescope.
Euclid will make a 3D-map of the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. The data will help identify the sources of dark matter and dark energy, which apparently makes up 95% of the cosmos.
You can find details of the 5 images at www.esa.int/…
Here is one of the beautiful images, that of the Horsehead Nebula, aka Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion, ~1,375 light-years away.
Now let’s focus our energy on today’s chess puzzle composed by E.W.J. Finter in 1931.
P.S.
The chess puzzle is published on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
It is customary for advanced players to wait till midnight ET before posting the full solution. Before then, they provide some stats about the solution (e.g., the minimum number of distinct checkmate moves), help guide others, and sometimes post hints. But there are no hard-and-fast rules; feel free to post comments as you please.