Euclid Mission

Euclid’s strength lies in its diversity: this small section of Euclid’s large image plane shows a detail of the Perseus galaxy cluster. Clearly recognizable are both the various types and shapes of galaxies as part of the cluster in the foreground at a distance of 240 million light years and a series of faint, diffuse spots in the background – galaxies whose light has been travelling for billions of years before Euclid imaged it. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Image Processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi;…

The Euclid mission, being undertaken by the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to illuminate the hidden aspects of our universe. It is expected to shed light on two enigmatic forces known as dark matter and dark energy. These entities, which remain undetectable through direct observation, exert significant influence on the behavior of galaxies, their rotation, and the expansion of the universe itself.To gain a deeper understanding of the nature of dark matter and dark energy, scientists require an instrument capable of…