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European space telescope Euclid spots oldest quasars yet

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 502 words · By Zulfikar Abbany
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What to know about European space telescope Euclid spots oldest quasars yet

European space telescope Euclid spots oldest quasars yet July 6, 2026 Quasars emit primordial light.

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What happened

European space telescope Euclid spots oldest quasars yet July 6, 2026 Quasars emit primordial light.

Why it matters

They are far, far away, both in terms of time and distance.

Common ground

They are easy to confuse with other celestial sources of light, such as stars that are closer to Earth.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “This finding more than doubles the number of quasars we know of that are so ancient”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that this finding 'more than doubles' the number of known ancient quasars.
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web search NEUTRAL — Euclid, launched in 2023, is digging deeper into this mystifying part of ancient cosmic history – with exciting results. The telescope has now discovered an unprecedented number of 31 new quasars in t…
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid…
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web search NEUTRAL — In March 2026 the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found, more than doubling the number of quasa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILX_6owtwgE
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web search NEUTRAL — This finding more than doubles the number of quasars we know of that are so ancient.Euclid discovers the most ancient quasars in the Universe. Video Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, video pr…
https://www.azoquantum.com/News.aspx?newsID=11183
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Claim 2: “ESA has now released images of two of the most ancient quasars ever located.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that ESA/Euclid released images and findings regarding the most ancient quasars ever located.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Space Agency (ESA; pronounced /ˈiːsə/ EE-sə) is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. It has its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 3,000 people gl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is a space agency, managing the European Union Space Programme as one of the agencies of the European Union (EU). It was initially created as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_the_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Government space agencies are bodies established by national governments, or by regional agencies representing groups of countries, to advocate for and engage in activities relating to outer space, in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_space_agenc…
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Claim 3: “They are just two out of a crop of 31 quasars that hark back to a time when the universe was a mere 670 million years old.”
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Multiple sources confirm the discovery of 31 quasars and link them to the early universe (approximately 670-800 million years old).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Albert Jojuan Belle (born August 25, 1966), until 1990 known as Joey Belle, is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder who played from 1989 to 2000, most notably for the Cleveland Indians.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Belle
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Euclid Creek is a 43-mile (69 km) long stream located in Cuyahoga and Lake counties in the state of Ohio in the United States. The 11.5-mile (18.5 km) long main branch runs from the Euclid Creek Reser…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Creek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of July 30, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 683 times, with 680 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…
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Claim 4: “It took astronomers more than a decade to discover the first 10 quasars with redshifts of 7 or higher.”
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The claim is explicitly supported by reports citing ESA data regarding the time it took to find the first ten quasars with redshift 7 or higher.
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web search NEUTRAL — First 10 Quasars Identified.Quasars would remain the most distant objects in the universe until 1997, when a pair of non-quasar galaxies would take the title (galaxies CL 1358+62 G1 & CL 1358+62 G2 le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quasars
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web search NEUTRAL — Revolutionizing Cosmic Surveys. Euclid's impact on the field is transformative. According to ESA, it took astronomers more than a decade to find the first ten quasars with a redshift of 7 or higher; E…
https://www.alextech.ai/en/news/euclid-telescope-uncovers-mo…
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web search NEUTRAL — These quasars have redshifts of 7.77 and 7.69, respectively. A redshift is a way to measure how much the light from an object has stretched as it travels across the universe (and as the universe expan…
https://earthsky.org/space/most-ancient-quasars-most-distant…
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Claim 5: “Daming Yang, the lead author of a study about the new findings, published July 6, 2026.”
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Multiple sources identify Daming Yang as the lead author and specify the publication date as July 6, 2026, in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Daming (Latin: Tamimen(sis), Chinese: 大名) is a diocese located in the city of Daming in the ecclesiastical province of Beijing in China.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yang Yuhuan (Chinese: 楊玉環; 719 – 15 July 756), often known as Yang Guifei or Lady Yang (楊貴妃, with guifei being the highest rank for imperial consorts during her time), and known briefly by the Taoist …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yang Shaohua (simplified Chinese: 杨少华; traditional Chinese: 楊少華; pinyin: Yáng Shàohuá; 17 June 1931 – 9 July 2025) was a Chinese xiangsheng comedian and actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shaohua
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Claim 6: “The two oldest quasars in the new discovery are known as: EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3”
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Three independent web sources explicitly list the names of the two oldest quasars as EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3.
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web search NEUTRAL — The two red dots are the record-breakers — EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3 — the oldest quasars ever identified. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Planck Collaboration/A.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/euclid-spots-the-oldest-kn…
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web search NEUTRAL — Quasars discovered by Euclid.The two most ancient of the batch, EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3, have redshifts of 7.77 and 7.69, respectively, setting a new record for the most …
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid…
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web search NEUTRAL — The discovery includes 12 quasars with a redshift of seven or higher, corresponding to the universe's first 770 million years. The two oldest, EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3, ha…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/euclid-telescope-discovers-m…
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Claim 7: “The European Space Agency's Euclid space-based telescope launched in 2024 to map the universe.”
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The claim states the telescope launched in 2024. However, multiple sources, including a web search result and Wikipedia, explicitly state it was launched on 1 July 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Euclid (; Ancient Greek: Εὐκλείδης; fl. 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Euclid generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (3rd century BC), who wrote a work on geometry called the Elements. Euclid, Euclides, or Eucleides may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine the redshift of detected galaxies. It was develop…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(space_telescope)
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Claim 8: “The Euclid telescope has discovered more than that in a single year of operation.”
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Sources confirm that Euclid surpassed the previous decade-long tally of high-redshift quasars within its first year/year-and-a-half of operation, specifically finding 12 with redshift 7 or higher.
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web search NEUTRAL — With only one year and a half of Euclid data, this discovery is just the beginning. The full 6-year survey is expected to uncover hundreds more high-redshift quasars, including the first z > 8 quasars…
https://www.miragenews.com/u-of-astronomers-shatter-record-w…
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web search NEUTRAL — And this is only the beginning. The current discoveries come from just the first part of Euclid’s six-year survey. The team expects the completed mission to uncover hundreds more quasars from the firs…
https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/from-astrono…
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web search NEUTRAL — The European Space Agency telescope found 31 new quasars dating to a time when the cosmos was less than 800 million years old. Of these, twelve sit at redshift 7 or higher. That means their light come…
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/esas-euclid-telescope-…
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