Tag: dark-matter-2
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Scientists show off the wide vision of Europe’s Euclid space telescope
The European Space Agency released the first five science images from the Euclid space telescope Tuesday, showing how the wide-angle observatory will survey familiar cosmic wonders like galaxies and stars to study the unseen dark energy and dark matter that dominate the Universe. Stationed nearly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, Euclid will…
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SpaceX launches groundbreaking European dark energy mission
A European Space Agency telescope launched Saturday on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida to begin a $1.5 billion mission seeking to answer fundamental questions about the unseen forces driving the expansion of the Universe. The Euclid telescope, named for the ancient Greek mathematician, will observe billions of galaxies during its six-year…