Euclid Space Telescope to Explore 'Dark Universe'

Recently, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida, carrying the Euclid space telescope, an orbital instrument aimed at unravelling the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter, enigmatic forces that constitute 95% of the known universe.

Key Points

• Mission Objectives: Euclid's mission is to study the evolution of the dark universe and provide precise measurements of the distances to galaxies using infrared light intensity and spectrums.
• Surveying Distant Galaxies: Euclid will survey galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away from Earth, using a wide-angle telescope to cover an extensive portion of the sky.
• Operating from Lagrange Point Two (L2): The ....