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My #introduction post. I’m a Canadian entrepreneur.

#Graphic artist, lifelong #musician, industrial #design school graduate, long-time #coder of things with microchips. Cross platform agnostic — all computers are good #mac #pc #unix, #linux, #ios, #macos, #android. Lives in the future & thankful for it. Loves #books, #movies, #cars, #airplanes, #computers, musical #instruments & fine #clothing. #He.

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[Zoom on the #CosmicWeb] Have you dived into the deep fields of #Euclid revealed this Wednesday by the @ec_euclid ? Have you navigated between the thousands of #galaxies of different shapes, sizes, colors and masses? So many objects, near and far, fill our #Universe! sky.esa.int/esasky/?hide_welco

What if their spatial distribution could tell us something about two mysterious components : #DarkMatter and #DarkEnergy? This is the gamble taken by the scientists involved in the Euclid mission. To do so, they've designed some unrivalled #instruments: a camera with great depth of field and high resolution records the variety of shapes and spatial distribution of galaxies, while a #spectrometer coupled with a #photometer can determine the distances and masses of galaxies ...

Alain Blanchard, professor at the University of Toulouse and researcher at IRAP, comments on the consortium's first-ever publication of scientific data: irap.omp.eu/en/2025/03/euclid-