UK scientists are getting ready to step up the search for elusive and mysterious dark matter with the help of a new Nasa telescope expected to launch this year.
Scientists from Durham University are among a team of 50 researchers from around the world taking part in the Cosmos-Webb programme, which will survey a patch of sky near the constellation Sextans.
They will use Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space telescope ever built, which is scheduled for launch in October and will become the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
The cosmologists will work to map the dark matter around galaxies, with the aim of unlocking the secrets of the mysterious substance that makes up the vast majority of matter in the universe.
James Webb Space Telescope program aims to map the earliest structures of the universe
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