Watch: 'Dark explorer' telescope launched into space

The Euclid scope has successfully launched into abstraction on a ngo to recognize immoderate of the universe's top mysteries.

The €1.4bn (£1.2bn) abstraction scope was primed to spell up connected a Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral successful Florida connected Saturday.

The motorboat is portion of a ngo that volition marque an immense 3D representation of the cosmos successful a bid to amended recognize alleged acheronian substance and acheronian energy.

Researchers cognize virtually thing astir these phenomena, which look to marque up the immense bulk of the universe.

Although chiefly a European Space Agency project, the ngo has important technological and engineering inputs from the US abstraction bureau Nasa.

Euclid volition transportation retired its enactment from an observing presumption connected the other broadside of our satellite to the Sun.