ANTARIKSA — On July 1 2023 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Elucid mission. Euclid was designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe.
This mission aims to create a three-dimensional map of the universe by observing billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away. This galaxy is spread over more than a third of the sky.
By observing the universe evolve over the last 10 billion years, Euclid will reveal how the universe expanded over time.
This mission aims to discover the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is a substance that cannot be detected directly. Meanwhile, dark energy is the name given to the force that accelerates the expansion of the universe.
As much as 95 percent of the universe consists of dark matter and dark energy. That means all the visible matter we see with our eyes accounts for only 5 percent of what exists in the universe.
Euclid will attempt to solve the mystery surrounding these two cosmological puzzles by studying 2 billion galaxies. Euclid is designed to produce sharp visible and infrared images of most of the sky in just one shot.
“We have never seen an astronomical image like this before, which contains so much detail,” said René Laureijs, Euclid Project Scientist from ESA, as reported by BBC SkyatNight Magazine.
Scientists claim the images produced by Elucid are more beautiful and sharp than we expected.
2023-11-10 02:45:00
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