Watch: The Dark Explorer telescope is launched into space

The Euclid Telescope has successfully launched into space to understand some of the universe's greatest mysteries.

The $1.4 billion space telescope was scheduled to fly on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday.

The launch is part of a mission that will create a giant 3D map of the cosmos to better understand what is known as dark matter and dark energy.

Researchers know almost nothing about these phenomena, which appear to make up most of the universe.

Although primarily a European Space Agency project, the mission benefits from significant scientific and technical input from the US space agency NASA.

Euclid will conduct his work from an observing position on the opposite side of our planet from the sun.

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