SpaceX sent the Dark Energy Telescope several million kilometers away from Earth

SpaceX today launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida. Euclid is a new observational satellite designed to study more than a billion galaxies at different wavelengths and analyze ten billion years of time. The satellite will be about a million miles from Earth and will have a 1.2-meter telescope that will send light to two instruments capable of processing infrared and visible light.

The Euclid telescope will also study dark matter and dark energy during its six-year mission. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched this morning local time and will soon send the second stage into space. The launch of the Euclid telescope is actually SpaceX’s 44th mission in 2023 and the company’s 243rd mission overall.

The Euclid telescope is an exceptional satellite that aims to study the nature of the universe, dark matter and dark energy. Its mission duration is six years, and ESA said that this duration could be extended, which may be limited by the amount of cold gas in the spacecraft. With the help of this satellite, ESA wants to study tens of billions of years of time in the depths of the universe to examine the structure of galaxies and their parameters. The big goal of this telescope is to observe 1.5 billion galaxies and compare their brightness at different wavelengths. This study will help measure the properties of each galaxy, such as size, mass and the number of stars produced in it.

Another goal of this satellite is to study dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is an invisible substance and its presence can be detected through the gravitational pull on galaxies. Astronomers still don’t know why the universe is expanding, and other mysteries remain unsolved. To know the answers to these questions, the Euclid map of the cosmos will provide a more detailed picture of galaxies over the next six years, and more than two thousand scientists in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States are currently working on this project.

The telescope will also try to confirm Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity by collecting data. Einstein’s theory has never been tested on the scale that Euclid would collect his data.

In any case, we have to see how successful this project will be.

Source: Wccftech