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revealed the first images captured by Euclid, a brand-new space telescope on a mission to study dark matter and energy.
The telescope sports much more sensitive sensors than its predecessors, which it uses to capture images across an extremely wide field of view., uses an array of 36 detectors to capture the equivalent of nearly 70 4k resolution screens in one capture. The resulting image covers a portion of the night sky equivalent to the area of two-and-a-half full moons seen from Earth.
The VISible instrument collects images in the visible spectrum of light, while the second instrument, a Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer, measures near-infrared light. Over the next six years, Euclid will use both instruments to assemble a massive cosmic 3D map. Scientists will use that data to tease out a better understanding of how dark matter shapes and influences the universe.
“Dark matter pulls galaxies together and causes them to spin more rapidly than visible matter alone can account for; dark energy is driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe,” explained European Space Agency director of science Carole Mundell in a release.“Euclid will for the first time allow cosmologists to study these competing dark mysteries together,” she continued.
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