A European telescope named Euclid has been launched into space by SpaceX to find the secrets of the creation of the universe. This telescope is sent into space to create a perfect three-dimensional or 3D map of the universe. It is believed that scientists will try to get an idea about the so-called dark matter and dark energy with the help of this map.
It was sent into space on Saturday (July 1) from the Cape Canaveral, Florida station in the US on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket. The Euclid telescope costed 1.4 billion euros to build. The telescope will be located at a distance of 1.5 million km from the earth. It will take about a month to reach the destination. Scientists say, with its help, you can go back to the history of the universe a thousand years ago. Along with the Earth, it will also revolve around the Sun at the same speed.
Although initially it is a project of the European Space Agency, NASA also has a significant contribution to this mission. In particular, the science and engineering of the telescope.
Isobel Hook, a teacher and astronomer at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, said that this mission is like sailing a ship before knowing where the land is. From this research I will try to find out where we are in this universe, how we came to the present stage and how all the wonderful galaxies were created after the Big Bang moment, how the solar system was created and life was born. So whatever we learn from the Euclid mission will help us understand the universe.
And Professor Mark Cropper of University College London’s space research laboratory said, the image that this camera will take will be huge. It would take more than 300 high-definition televisions to view a single picture of it.
As reported by the BBC, previous studies have estimated that 70 percent of the energy in the universe is dark energy. About 25 percent is dark matter. The remaining five percent are stars, gases, dust, planets, and visible objects like us. The Euclid telescope will conduct two surveys over six years to gain insight into this mysterious 95 percent of the universe. The main task will be to create a map of where and how dark matter exists.
It is worth noting that, this work was discussed for the first time over an area of only two square degrees of sky. The Hubble Space Telescope, now the Euclid Telescope, will cover 15,000 square degrees of the sky. The telescope’s VIS camera, which will be used to do this work, is led by the United Kingdom.
