CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.
SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles away, the Webb Space Telescope's neighborhood. It will take a month to get there and another two months before it starts its ambitious six-year survey this fall.Flight controllers in Germany declared success nearly an hour into the flight, applauding and shouting 'Yes!' as the telescope phoned home after a smooth liftoff.
The telescope's highly anticipated 3D map of the cosmos will span both space and time in a bid to explain how the dark universe evolved and why its expansion is speeding up.The lead scientist for the $1.5 billion mission said Euclid will measure dark energy and dark matter with unprecedented precision.'It's more than a space telescope, Euclid. It's really a dark energy detector,' Rene Laureijs noted.Fifteen feet tall and almost as wide, Euclid sports a 1.
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