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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

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