Euclid space telescope to be launched this weekend

Credit: NASA

ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Further information can be found directly on the ESA website at this Link.

To follow the launch of Euclid live, follow this Link.

The Department of Astrophysics is now also part of this amazing mission. The local contact is Prof. Oliver Hahn (oliver.hahn@univie.ac.at).