SCIENCE

Space

Euclid Space Telescope 

  • European Space Agency’s newest observatory, Euclid,  has sent it first pictures of the cosmos. 
  • Euclid launched on July 1 from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
  • Now floating about a million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth
  • It joined the James Webb Space Telescope at the second Lagrange point
  • The space telescope was designed to investigate some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. 
  • This machine’s purpose is to map out the dark side of our universe by analyzing billions of galaxies that reside up to about 10 billion light-years away.

 

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