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Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmos

The European Space Agency’s #Euclid space #telescope is scheduled to launch on 1 July and then begin its mission of studying the effects of #dark #energy and #dark #matter

newscientist.com/article/23796

Euclid has two scientific instruments: a #visible #light camera to measure the shape of galaxies, and a #near-#infrared detector to measure their brightness and distance.

While it isn’t the first space telescope to use either of these types of instruments, it will be unusual in that it is planned to observe a huge swathe of space, cataloguing over a #billion #galaxies across more than one-third of the sky.

New ScientistEuclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmosBy Leah Crane