NSN Webinar Series - Euclid: Mapping the Geometry of the Dark Universe with Dr. Michael Seiffert
Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (9:00 PM Eastern) along with Dr. Michael Seiffert where we’ll discuss the Euclid space telescope and the search for dark energy and dark matter.
Euclid is a new European Space Agency space telescope with NASA contributions designed to provide new insights into the nature of dark matter and why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The term “dark energy” has been given to refer to the unknown cause of this accelerated expansion. Over the course of six years, Euclid will build a sky map covering over one-third of the sky out to distances over 10 billion light-years. This map will be used to probe the large-scale structure of the universe, measure the properties of dark matter and dark energy, and test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Along the way, we will be gathering detailed information on over a billion distant galaxies, as well as providing new views of astronomical objects much closer to home. The talk will describe the Euclid mission, its goals, and some of the early scientific results.
About Michael Seiffert:
Dr. Michael Seiffert has worked as a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the last 25 years and currently serves as the project scientist for the NASA contribution to Euclid. His research interests include developing new astronomical instruments and using them to learn about our universe.
