# Euclid Telescope

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** science-math\
**Created:** [May 28, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198 "2024-05-28T19:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/1 "2024-05-28T19:48:00Z")

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These beautiful space pictures from the Euclid telescope are worth your time. My understanding is the telescope is on a craft launched into space and capable of taking detailed wide-angle pictures showing galaxies separated by enormous distances. Since the pictures just show one day of observation, many more are in the future.

(Gift link.)

> **[Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/science/euclid-telescope-images.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU0.CBpE.MQ_qIwSqwkoG&smid=url-share)**
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> The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope’s latest release shows off the device’s capabilities.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/2 "2024-05-28T20:02:00Z")

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Really shows how small we are.

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/3 "2024-05-28T20:02:02Z")

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Thanks for the link - really beautiful images! I understand Euclid is going to measure red shift, look at gravitational lensing and other things and try to map the universe and understand things like the expansion rate after the Big Bang. I’m hoping we will get to see some stunning deep fields, very old galaxies and weird anomalies.

Perhaps if its wide camera spots something interesting, the JWT will zoom in for a closer look.

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/4 "2024-05-28T20:36:36Z")

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Cool !  
Pics available for download [here.](https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Missions/Euclid/(result_type)/images)

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/5 "2024-05-28T23:30:19Z")

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Thanks for that link. For more about Euclid…

> **[Euclid (spacecraft)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(spacecraft))**
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> Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine the redshift of detected galaxies. It was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium and was launched on 1 July 2023 from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
> After approximately one month, it reached its destination, a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth second Lagrange point L2, at an average distance of 1.5 million kilometres ...

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euclid-telescope/1002198/6 "2024-05-29T01:01:32Z")

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> [@beowulff](#):
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> Really shows how small we are.

But how do they keep the fairy cake from drying out?