As Clubradio previously reported, the Euclid Space Telescope, which investigates the nature of dark matter and dark energy present in the universe, was launched in July.
It has now been reported csillagaszat.huThat Euclid had finally begun to explore the darkest corners of the universe. Its mission is not simple, as it is trying to find out how dark matter and dark energy shaped our universe as it is today.
“The area of the sky that Euclid can capture with a combination of several cameras and a single exposure is larger than the size of the full moon,” he said on the Utopia broadcast. Robert Szabo Astronomer, Director of the Miklós Konkoli-Thegy Institute for Astronomy of the Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences. Euclid’s specialty is just that It can capture extremely sharp images of a wide area of the sky in the visible and infrared ranges with just one observation.
Euclid is also important because, as astronomer Laszlo Kiss, director general of the Center for Research in Astronomy and Earth Sciences, previously told Klubrádio: “The matter we know makes up 5 percent of the universe. And 27 percent, we don’t know the composition.” But we know, based on its effects, that it has a gravitational effect. We call this dark matter, and we do not know an atom’s weight about the remaining 68%, but its effect is opposite to gravity and thus accelerates the expansion of matter. Universe. This is called dark energy.”
A telescope can measure the amount of all matter. At the same time, it can also measure distortions caused by dark matter clumps, which somewhat change the image of the galaxy.
You can listen to the entire conversation by clicking on the player above, in the first half of the show.
The virtuous city
21/11/2023 Tuesday at 19:00
Reporter: Gabor Neumann
