Euclid Lens Hunt Invites the Public to Map Dark Matter with Space Warps

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Source: European Space Agency
Euclid Lens Hunt Invites the Public to Map Dark Matter with Space Warps
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The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope is powering a new citizen-science project on Zooniverse called Space Warps, enlisting volunteers to identify strong gravitational lenses in Euclid’s high‑quality images. This work helps study dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic expansion, with around 300,000 AI‑preselected images guiding the search and the team expecting to uncover more than 10,000 new lens candidates from Euclid Data Release 1.

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