Telescope launches on mission to uncover secrets of dark universe
A European space telescope has been launched on a million-mile journey to map the dark universe.
The Euclid space telescope, named after the ancient Greek mathematician, will spend six years venturing through space, observing billions of galaxies as it does so. It was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 4.12pm UK time on Saturday, and should take a month to reach its destination - an area in space known as the second Lagrange point.An artist's image shows the Euclid space telescope in space. Pic: European Space Agency/Reuters
This is a stable location for the spacecraft as the gravitational forces of the Earth and the sun are roughly equal. The UK has contributed £37m towards the £850m mission, with scientists playing key roles in designing and building the two-tonne probe and leading on one of the two scientific instruments on board - a visible imager that will become one of the largest cameras ever sent into space.
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