One month after its launch, the European space telescope Euclid, soon to be positioned 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, opened its eye to capture its first images. These test images, whose publication marks a great relief for the teams of the European Space Agency (ESA) mission, who have been working on this project for over a decade, indicate that the two instruments of the telescope designed to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, a visible light imager (VIS) and a near-infrared spectro-imager (NISP), are functioning perfectly. The high quality of these initial images, produced with minimal system … Continue reading Euclid Telescope’s Stunning Debut: Unveiling Never-Before-Seen Images of the Universe!