Euclid Space Warps – help the hunt for galaxy-galaxy lenses!

A collage of fourteen by eight squares containing examples of gravitational lenses. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre. I’m sharing the text of a press release from Euclid here to encourage readers to join in this new Zooniverse project. –o– In brief With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen images captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The project aims at shining a light on dark matter in galaxies and providing clues about mysterious dark energy. In-depth Warps in spacetime do not only show up in science fiction movies like Interstellar. In real life, we can see the warping effect that gravity has on spacetime in the form of gravitational lensing. The enormous gravity of a massive object – such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies –…