The Euclid Space Telescope | Tackling Dark Matter/Energy
The Euclid Space Telescope is set to launch no earlier than the 1st July 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
2023-06-22 21:00:00 - Dr. Becky
It’s one job over the next 6 years will be to survey the positions, shapes and distances to galaxies within 10 billion light years in over a third of the sky.
The aim is to make the most detailed map of the Universe ever; a map that will help us crack some of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos. How is dark matter distributed and what it is it?
Plus how the Universe's expansion rate (i.e. the Hubble constant) has changed with time and what that can tell us about dark energy…
00:00 | Introduction
00:15 | Launch and orbit
00:52 | Euclid’s one job: survey the sky
03:34 | 6 year Mission timeline
04:12 | The Euclid consortium in 16 countries
04:25 | Babbel
05:26 | Euclid instruments & wavelength
06:08 | How the map gets made
07:29 | Why the name Euclid?
08:14 | Science Goal 1: How do galaxies change over time?
09:22 | Science Goal 2: Dark Matter map & properties
11:26 | Science Goal 3: How does the expansion rate of the Universe change with time?
13:06 | Serendipitous discoveries with Euclid
14:10 | Bloopers