ESA reveals first stunning Euclid telescope images showing the universe as you've never seen it

In newly released images from its Euclid telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) has offered a glimpse of never-seen-before distant galaxies.

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00:15 We take a lot of images.

00:17 These images together will give us the total structure of the universe up to a look back time of 10 billion years.

00:26 We can follow the evolution of the structure over 10 million years.

00:30 And this is really the aim of Euclid, to make this giant 3D distribution map

00:37 and derive from it the properties of dark matter and dark energy.

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00:59 It's all about the origin, the composition, the large scale structure, the fate, as well as the physics of our universe.

01:11 And in that case, dark matter and dark energy have a role in all these elements that I just mentioned.

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