A space telescope embarks on the study of the “dark universe”

HISTORY: The telescope nicknamed Euclid, after the ancient Greek mathematician called the ‘father of geometry’, was carried aloft in the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which lifted off around 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

New knowledge from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) $1.4 billion mission, designed to last at least six years, is set to transform astrophysics and perhaps the understanding of the nature of gravity itself. -even.