The Euclid Telescope is already on its way to the depths of the Universe. The device was launched at 11:12 a.m. this Saturday (4:12 p.m. in Lisbon), from the NASA base in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Euclid, built by the European Space Agency, leaves to “conquer” the hidden side of Space, in a mission designed to try to understand what is accelerating the expansion of the Universe and that, according to cosmological theories, is due to darkness. energy, a mysterious force that opposes gravitational attraction.
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Source: Observadora