A European space telescope has blasted off on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. 9News
launched the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1.5 million kilometres away, the Webb Space Telescope's neighbourhood.
"I'm so thrilled, I'm so excited to see now this mission up in space, knowing it is on its way," the European Space Agency's director general, Josef Aschbacher, said from the Florida launch site. The telescope's highly anticipated 3D map of the cosmos will span both space and time in a bid to explain how the dark universe evolved and why its expansion is speeding up.
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