Space telescope intended to probe dark energy and dark matter successfully launched

The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid space telescope is now on its way to its permanent operating location, some 1.5-million kilometres from Earth (or four times the distance to the Moon), known as Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2 (L2). This is point of gravitational equilibrium between the Sun and the Earth, in the direction opposite to the Sun. The telescope, which was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from US Space Force Station Cape Canaveral on Saturday, will orbit around Sun-Earth L2. ...