00:03The universe is still very much a mystery. In fact, most of it is likely made up of something
00:08we're not even sure exists. Dark matter. It is something that has perplexed scientists
00:12like the ESA, Euclid payload manager Alexander Short for ages.
00:16The universe is expanding faster and faster. So something is causing it to expand faster
00:22and faster. So there's a lot of energy that we can't see and we can't explain. And we
00:28call that dark energy.
00:28But now the European Space Agency is looking to finally uncover the mysteries of the elusive
00:33substance with this, their new space telescope. This is Euclid and its goal is to build a 3D
00:38map of the universe, detecting anything and everything, meaning both the things we can
00:43see and the things we can't.
00:45So cosmology is exciting at the moment. We have dark matter, dark energy, 95% of everything
00:51out there we can't really explain. The cosmological models don't quite work. And Euclid is going
00:57to hopefully make a huge advancement in our understanding of all of these topics.
01:04Most space telescopes at the moment focus on looking deep into space and giving us a closer
01:08look at light, both visible and invisible, coming from the far corners of the galaxy.
01:12But this one, which is expected to launch in July, is hopefully going to give us a taste
01:17of something else entirely.
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