In a significant scientific endeavor, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has been launched on a million-mile journey to map the mysteries of the dark universe. Named after the ancient Greek mathematician, Euclid will spend six years traversing space, observing billions of galaxies to shed light on two of the universe’s greatest enigmas: dark energy and dark matter.
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The Euclid space telescope was propelled into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 4:12 PM UK time on Saturday. It is expected to take approximately a month to reach its destination, known as the second Lagrange point, a stable location where the gravitational forces of the Earth and the sun are roughly equal.
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