New scientific mission to study dark energy

Euclid is a mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) intended to study the hidden nature of dark matter and dark energy. This plan of the mission was proposed first in 2007 and then selected in ESA´s Cosmic Vision programme in 2011. It´s planned to be launched in 2020 and will be placed at an orbit around earth at langrangian point 2 (L2) 1.5 million km from earth.

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More on space telescope Euclid at:

http://sci.esa.int/euclid/
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Euclid_overview
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_

See also forum thread about Euclid:
http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=http%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/6987/

Slightly off topic. A brand new proposal

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00043v1

The proposal is to enlarge the current 3.5 metre CFH telescope on Mauna Kea into an 11.25 metre diameter telescope to be called the MSE.

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: the Composition and Dynamics of the Faint Universe

MSE is an 11.25m aperture observatory with a 1.5 square degree field of view that will be fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy. More than 3200 fibres will feed spectrographs.

MSE is an essential follow-up facility to current and next generations of multi-wavelength imaging surveys, including LSST, Gaia, Euclid, WFIRST, PLATO, and the SKA, and is designed to complement and go beyond the science goals of other planned and current spectroscopic capabilities like VISTA/4MOST, WHT/WEAVE, AAT/HERMES and Subaru/PFS.

it’s about time they shone some light on this subject