![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/euclid-captures-stunning-stars-and-galaxies-after-space-telescopes-million-mile-trip/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_US-SCIENCE-SPACE.jpg&description=European space telescope Euclid has captured amazing images of stars and galaxies after being sent on a million-mile journey to better understand dark energy and matter Stunning array of stars and galaxies have been captured in "exhilarating" images by a telescope sent to explore the great mysteries of dark energy and matter. European space telescope Euclid sent back the first glimpses after a million-mile journey from Earth. It was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 1 and has arrived at its destination - a vantage point known as the Second Lagrange Point. Its mission is to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. The European Space Agency called it a "milestone" which indicates the telescope will achieve its goals. It said "spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more" could be seen in the images, even though the instruments involved captured a portion of sky smaller than the full moon. Black and white images were taken by Euclid's visible light instrument (VIS), which will go on to capture "sharp" shots of billions of galaxies to measure their shapes, according to the space agency. Red images were captured by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument which will measure the amount of light that galaxies emit at each wavelength. Project manager Giuseppe Racca said: "After more than 11 years of designing and developing Euclid, it's exhilarating and enormously emotional to see these first images. It's even more incredible when we think that we see just a few galaxies here, produced with minimum system tuning. "The fully calibrated Euclid will ultimately observe billions of galaxies to create the biggest ever 3D map of the sky." The development of the VIS was led by Mark Cropper from University College London. He said: "I'm thrilled by the beauty of these images and the abundance of information contained within them." Th){kind=link}
European space telescope Euclid has captured amazing images of stars and galaxies after being sent on a million-mile journey to better understand dark energy and matter
Stunning array of stars and galaxies have been captured in “exhilarating” images by a telescope sent to explore the great mysteries of dark energy and matter.
European space telescope Euclid sent back the first glimpses after a million-mile journey from Earth. It was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 1 and has arrived at its destination – a vantage point known as the Second Lagrange Point.
Its mission is to shed light on two of the universe’s greatest mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. The European Space Agency called it a “milestone” which indicates the telescope will achieve its goals.
It said “spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more” could be seen in the images, even though the instruments involved captured a portion of sky smaller than the full moon. Black and white images were taken by Euclid’s visible light instrument (VIS), which will go on to capture “sharp” shots of billions of galaxies to measure their shapes, according to the space agency.