Euclid aims to accurately map galaxy redshift. Redshift is one of the primary ways we have to turn a picture of the night sky into something more like a 3D map that has depth. It's based around something very much like the Doppler shift. And the final part of this jigsaw, I suppose, is that the universe is expanding. What that means is that as you look at things that are further and further away, they are receding from us faster and faster.
Ian Sample speaks to the cosmologist Dr Andrew Pontzen about the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission, which hopes to uncover more about two of the universe’s most baffling components: dark energy and dark matter. Pontzen explains what the probe will be looking for and how its findings will contribute to our understanding of the structure and evolution of the cosmos. Help support our independent journalism at
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