Euclid’s Here!
<p>The dark matter telescope known as “Euclid” has finally come online and we’re seeing its first images flood back!</p>
<p>To cut it short, Euclid is a dark matter telescope which aims to solve the dark matter mystery once and for all. Having been launched on July 1st, Euclid’s spent four months calibrating its instruments (much like the JWST) after having made it to its’ resting point L2 (much like the JWST).</p>
<p>As GAIA’s successor, one of its objectives is to create a map of the night sky. To do this, it’ll employ NISP, or the <em>Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer</em>. This will allow it to take spectrographic and photometric measurements of light, first splitting then absorbing light as it travels to determine its composition and amount.</p>
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