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00:00This is the universe as seen through the lens of the Euclid telescope.
00:0526 million galaxies captured so far, 35 terabytes of images which have been put together to
00:11form a map of the cosmos.
00:15And this is just the beginning.
00:17It's only one week's work of mapping the sky.
00:20The mission, carried out by the European Space Agency, is due to last six years, over which
00:26researchers hope to map one third of the extragalactic sky with such detail.
00:32Some of these galaxies are over 10 billion light years away from us, and by scanning
00:37them multiple times, the telescope will capture them at different stages of their evolution.
00:42And this, scientists hope, will help understand how structures have formed and changed over
00:48billions of years.
00:49It's impossible to visualise all the galaxies, there will be billions of galaxies.
00:54So in many areas of astronomy, AI will be used more and more to classify and find, also
01:02to find a new object.
01:04Euclid is just starting this survey, it will keep us busy for many more years.
01:11And we are all very excited and the scientific community by the great potential.
01:17Euclid's nickname is the Dark Universe Detective.
01:20Its ultimate purpose is to shed some light on dark matter, which is believed to be what
01:24holds galaxies together, as well as on dark energy.
01:28Dark energy pulls galaxies apart by making the universe expand faster and faster over
01:34time.