Euclid (spacecraft)

Euclid is a telescope that was launched on 1 July 2023. It was launched by the European Space Agency.

The telescope is named after Euclid, an ancient greek mathematician.

It was made by ESA and sent to space by SpaceX. The telescope has a 600 megapixel camera.

 Orbit 
Euclid is in orbit far from Earth. This special orbit is beyond the moon, at the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Sun-Earth system, this orbit is 1,500,000 kilometers from Earth, about four times farther away from Earth than the moon. It does not actually go around the Earth, but goes around the sun at the same speed as the Earth.

 The mission 
The main goal of Euclid is to study the universe, learn it's history, and learn the expansion of the universe. With it's 600 megapixel camera the telescope can take high-resolution images of galaxies millions of light-years away.  ESA released the first colorful images from the Euclid telescope on November, 7 2023

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