Zinsinsi za chilengedwe chamdima zomwe zadodometsa akatswiri a zakuthambo kwa zaka mazana ambiri zitha kuthetsedwa ndi asayansi aku Southampton pambuyo pa Euclid satellite anaponyedwa mumlengalenga.
The £1 biliyoni Euclid rocket idayambitsidwa ndi SpaceX mu Julayi kuti aulule magwero a cosmos. Satelliteyi, yomwe ili ndi makamera a telescopic space, ili pa ntchito ya zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi yowunikira mphamvu zakuda ndi zinthu zakuda - zomwe asayansi amati ndi 95 peresenti ya chilengedwe chodziwika.
Pulofesa wa Astrophysics Francesco Shankar, wochokera ku yunivesite ya Southampton, ndi gawo la mgwirizano wapadziko lonse womwe ukugwira ntchito pa Euclid ndi NASA ndi European Space Agency. Iye anati setilaiti ipanga mapu aakulu a mmene chilengedwe chilili poona milalang’amba mabiliyoni ambiri.
Pulofesa Shankar anawonjezera kuti: “Telesikopu ya Euclid idzafotokoza mmene milalang’amba imagawira milalang’amba ndi nthawi yosonyeza mmene chilengedwe chikukulirakulira. Izi ndizovuta kwambiri zowunikira zomwe zitha kuwunikira momwe mphamvu zamdima zimakhalira. ”
Satellite ya Euclid idakhazikitsidwa kuchokera ku roketi ya SpaceX's Falcon 9 pa siteshoni yake ya Cape Canaveral ku Florida ndipo pano ikuwulukira ku L2 Lagrange point - yomwe ili pamtunda wa makilomita 1.5million kuchokera ku Earth.
Ikufuna kujambula zoposa gawo limodzi mwa magawo atatu a thambo la extragalactic kunja kwa Milky Way pogwiritsa ntchito kamera yake yolondola kwambiri - ndipo idzachita pafupi ndi infrared spectroscopy ya mazana mamiliyoni a milalang'amba ndi nyenyezi kudera lomwelo.
Asayansi adzagwiritsa ntchito zomwe zasonkhanitsidwa ndi satelayiti osati kuyesa mphamvu zakuda, zinthu zakuda, ndi malingaliro ena amphamvu yokoka, komanso kuti avumbulutse kusinthika kwa milalang'amba ndi ma bowo akuda kwambiri, omwe ndi mutu wa Prof Shankar ndi ntchito ya gulu lake ku Southampton. .
Ananenanso kuti: "Mphamvu zamdima ndi zinthu zakuda ndi zinthu zomwe sizikupezeka - ndipo sitikudziwa zambiri za izi. Poyerekeza mabiliyoni a milalang'amba, Euclid adzatipatsa chidziwitso chokhudza chilengedwe cha chilengedwe mpaka pamiyeso yayikulu kwambiri komanso nthawi zosiyanasiyana zakuthambo, zomwe zimatilepheretsa kuyang'ana pamtundu wa zinthu zakuda ndi mphamvu zakuda."
Yunivesite ndi membala woyambitsa Space South Central, gulu lalikulu kwambiri lazamlengalenga ku UK, lomwe limathandizira makampani opanga zakuthambo kudera lonselo kuti alimbikitse luso lazopangapanga pogwiritsa ntchito bizinesi yatsopano komanso mgwirizano wamaphunziro.
Ntchito ya mlengalenga ya Euclid idzapitirira mpaka 2029. Bungwe la European Space Agency, lomwe linapereka ndalama zothandizira ntchitoyi, linanena kuti khalidwe la zithunzizo lidzakhala lakuthwa kanayi kuposa zomwe zimatengedwa pansi.
Kuti mudziwe zambiri za Euclid pitani www.esa.int.
Source: University of Southampton