Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine the redshift of detected galaxies.
It was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium and was launched on 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe.
It is named after the Greek mathematician, Euclid of Alexandria.
The space telescope aims to create a detailed map of the Universe's large-scale structure by observing billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away.
Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history
It is floating 1.5 million kilometres above the Earth, and the telescope deliver images that are at least four times sharper than ground-based ones.
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