ESA’s Euclid mission to study the dark universe has passed Mission Preliminary Design Review (M-PDR); a major step towards launch at the end of 2020. ICG astronomers are playing important roles in the preparations for this mission, including studies of galaxy clustering and management structure.

“This is a major hurdle we have got over. Interestingly we are now closer to launch than the start of the original euclid concept last decade” notes Bob Nichol, part of the ICG Euclid team.