Euclid's Dark Universe Telescope: Unveiling Cosmic Mysteries with SpaceX Launch

The Euclid space telescope, launched atop a SpaceX rocket, has begun its journey to deep space. Over the next month, it will commute to the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, about 1 million miles away from Earth, before undergoing tests and observations to ensure its instruments are ready for its mission to find evidence of dark matter and dark energy. The telescope is expected to be fully operational in about eight months, following a calibration sequence similar to that of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope.