Give attention to Euclid with Jean-Charles Cuillandre: “What we see within the first Euclid pictures is a promise of what is going to come sooner or later.”
Jean-Charles Cuillandre, astronomer at CEA Paris-Saclay, explains that he was “blown away” when he noticed the primary full-colour pictures captured by ESA’s lately launched Euclid area telescope.
Being a specialist of wide-field imaging, Jean-Charles was not solely concerned within the programme committee that chosen the celestial targets for the ESA Euclid’s ‘Early Launch Observations’, however he was additionally accountable for processing the information each for his or her scientific and their outreach worth.
Jean-Charles anticipated the ensuing pictures to look extraordinarily crispy since they’re taken by devices outdoors of the Earth’s disturbing environment, however even he was not ready for the astonishing outcomes. The mixture of the field-of-view (the world of sky lined with a single shot of the telescope), and the decision (the variety of pixels within the devices) are distinctive for Euclid.
The primary 5 launched pictures subsequently present the scientific potential of the Euclid area mission. The Euclid Consortium is accountable to meet this promise. Greater than 2000 scientists from 300 institutes in 13 European international locations, the US, Canada and Japan, will attempt to decipher the darkish Universe by means of the evaluation of Euclid’s scientific knowledge.
On this interview, Jean-Charles Cuillandre shares with us his view of Euclid and the elusive darkish matter and darkish power. He particularly describes the obvious astronomical objects and divulges the hidden info behind their lovely look.
Be able to be “blown away”.
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Euclid pictures
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