{"id":12671,"date":"2026-06-27T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12671"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:27:20","slug":"euclid-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/euclid-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Euclid Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Euclid Space Telescope Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Euclid space telescope has delivered one of the most detailed views ever captured of the Milky way galaxy&#8217;s crowded heart and revealed more than 60 million stars in a single extraordinary image.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Euclid Space Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a 1.2-metre telescope launched in 2023 by the <\/span><b>European Space Agency.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objectives<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to <\/span><b>map large spatial structures, like galaxies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in our universe and help reconstruct how the universe expanded and how galaxy structures are shaped the way they appear today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to explore the composition and <\/span><b>evolution of the dark Universe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It explores how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Payloads of Euclid Space Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has two scientific payloads: Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) and Visible Imager (VIS).<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Visible-Wavelength Camera (VISible Instrument \u2013 VIS)<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It captures <\/span><b>high-resolution images of galaxies.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helps detect tiny distortions in galaxy shapes caused by gravitational lensing\u2014a method used to study dark matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP)<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It measures <\/span><b>how fast galaxies are moving apart<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, providing insight into the influence of dark energy over time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developed with NASA\u2019s contribution, including sensor-chip electronics and detectors<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/euclid-milky-way-image-akash-ganga-core-exoplanet-search-2934717-2026-06-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euclid Space Telescope is a 1.2-metre telescope launched in 2023 by the European Space Agency. 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