Euclid Mission: Mapping the Universe's Expansion to Unravel Dark Energy and Dark Matter
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UK Space Agency
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The article discusses the Euclid space mission, launched in July 2023 by the European Space Agency with significant UK involvement (£37 million investment). Euclid's 6-year mission is to map the expansion of the Universe to better understand dark energy and dark matter, which together make up 96% of the Universe's mass-energy budget — a profound shift from the scientific understanding of 20-30 years ago when only ordinary matter (protons, neutrons, electrons) was thought to exist. The mission aims to address fundamental gaps in our knowledge of physics.
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· 4 pulledUntil 20 to 30 years ago, scientists thought that the Universe was composed of ordinary matter: protons, neutrons and electrons.
Now we know that this accounts for only 4% of the Universe mass-energy budget.
The rest is composed of two mysterious components, dark energy and dark matter, which are causing the expansion of the Universe to accelerate, and which cannot be adequately explained by our current knowledge of fundamental physics.
The UK Space Agency has invested £37 million in the miss
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