Scientists hope this telescope will give insight into the dark energy and dark matter that make up most of the universe and keep it expanding.
. It will take a month to get there and another two months before it starts its ambitious six-year survey this fall.
"I’m so thrilled, I’m so excited to see now this mission up in space, knowing it is on its way," the European Space Agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher, said from the Florida launch site. The lead scientist for the $1.5 billion mission said Euclid will measure dark energy and dark matter with unprecedented precision.RELATED:Fifteen feet tall and almost as wide, Euclid sports a 1.2-meter telescope and two scientific instruments capable of observing the cosmos in both visible light and the near infrared. A huge sunshield is designed to keep the sensitive systems at the properly frigid temperatures.
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