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Euclid: Exploring the dark universe

Cosmic network: A section of the virtual cosmos comprising a billion light years shows that dark matter is bunched together (halos: yellow points) and connected by filaments. The density of the dark matter is the lowest in the white areas. The simulation was performed on one of the world's fastest supercomputers, Piz Daint at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland in 2016. (Image: Joachim Stadel, UZH)

The Euclid Mission

ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Euclid website

Euclid at UZH

Prof. Joachim Stadel (Dept. of Astrophysics)

Prof. Aurel Schneider (Dept. of Astrophysics)

Prof. Julian Adamek (Dept. of Astrophysics)