ESA and SpaceX send $1.5 billion European telescope Euclid into space to study dark matter and dark energy

Another observatory has appeared in space. It's called Euclid and costs about $1.5 billion. Space telescope

was launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

What is known

The space observatory was developed by the Europeanspace agency (European Space Agency, ESA). Euclid will be 1.5 million km away from our planet and will be in the same orbit as the James Webb telescope. It is expected that scientists will be able to obtain the first data next year.

The observatory is equipped with a formation systemimages in the visible part of the spectrum VISible Imager (VIS), spectrometer and near infrared photometer Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP). Euclid will take pictures of billions of stars and galaxies within six years, allowing scientists to learn more about dark energy and dark matter.

It is worth noting that Euclid was originally supposed tofly into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the cosmodrome in French Guiana. Due to the invasion of Ukraine, many projects with Russian participation were closed. As a result, Euclid launched into space on an American Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in California.

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