Europe's Euclid space telescope amazes astronomers with initial razor-sharp images

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The $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope is designed to study mysterious dark energy and dark matter, which make up 95% of the universe.

The first razor-sharp images from Europe's Euclid space telescope were unveiled Tuesday, showing the compact observatory's powerful cameras are working flawlessly in an ambitious mission to probe the nature of dark energy and equally mysterious dark matter.

It's designed to probe the nature of dark energy, the mysterious force speeding up the expansion of the universe, and dark matter, the unseen material holding galaxies together and shaping their evolution.Together, dark energy and dark matter make up 95% of everything in the observable universe. 'Normal' matter — the atoms in the periodic table making up everything we can see around us — accounts for just 5%.

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