G. De Lucia

In Euclid's deep fields, stars flare up that were not in any catalog. A telescope built to map dark matter has worked like a camera trap: one frame, and a cosmic explosion is already on record.

The Universe was born in the Big Bang and almost instantly passed through a phase of inflation — an ultra-fast expansion that blew up microscopic regions to cosmological scales.

The city has long been asleep: not a single lit window, not a single new house. Only in the very center, in one lone building, someone forgot to turn off a spotlight. That's what a galaxy looks like when stars are no longer born, yet its central black hole still shines.