The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope will be launched using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Saturday 1 July 2023. Photo/ESA/Live Science
PARIS – Telescope Euclid’s outer space European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Saturday 1 July 2023. This space telescope will look for clues about the two biggest mysteries of the universe, namely dark matter (dark matter) and dark energy (dark energy).
The Euclid space telescope will use its vast field of view to hunt for two of the universe’s most mysterious components, dark matter and dark energy. Although dark matter and dark energy cannot be detected directly, scientists observe a gravitational warping effect in galaxies.
Euclid’s enormous field of view will significantly expand this quest of warped space-time. The satellite is named after the ancient Greek mathematician who is considered the “father of geometry” Euclid or Ekluides.
Euclid is a space telescope with a height of 4.5 meters and a diameter of 3.1 meters. The telescope is installed with only two instruments, namely a near-infrared camera that will measure the distance and brightness of the galaxy, and a visible light camera that will study its shape.
Once Euclid’s data is collected, scientists will use it to create two maps of the universe. The first will detail the spread of dark matter in the universe by gravitational lensing. Where matter bends light from distant sources through curved paths in space-time, thus magnifying it.
The second uses acoustic oscillations of baryons, giant shock waves of matter created when the universe was hot and now frozen in time, as cosmic tree rings to study the accelerating growth of the universe and its suspected cause: dark energy.
What is dark matter?
Dark matter is a mysterious and somewhat contradictory type of matter that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe. However, because it does not directly interact with light, it is completely invisible.
2023-06-30 11:20:00
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