Artit’s illustration of the Euclid Mission in action. ESA via Wikipedia Even the most successful space missions initially encounter snafus which can keep their project managers up all night. And the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission is no exception. Roughly one month after its launch this past July, the team realized that the spacecraft had …
Euclid’s early release images ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Four months after launch, the European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft has sent back its first stunning color images. The five images, which were officially unveiled to the media today at ESA’s European Space Operations Center here …
Artist’s impression of the Euclid spacecraft. ESA/ATG medialab (spacecraft); NASA, ESA, CXC, C. Ma, H. Ebeling and E. Barrett (University of Hawaii/IfA), et al. and STScI (background) Dark matter continues to confound astronomers, as it remains invisible to direct observation. Despite this, it comprises the majority of the mass in galaxies. Dark energy, an equally …