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A space telescope dubbed ‘the dark universe detective’ has released five new views of the cosmos in jaw-dropping detail. The Euclid telescope earned its nickname because it investigates the universe’s two most mysterious elements – dark energy and dark matter, collectively known as the ‘dark universe’. Now it's sent back images of previously unknown corners of the galaxy, showing off quite a decent lens in the process.

According to the five new released by the Euclid team are “at least four times sharper than images taken from ground-based telescopes”. The images go some way to illustrating the ludicrous vastness of our universe, providing back on Earth with useful information. One of the pictures shows a giant conglomeration of galaxies just like our very own Milky Way, located just the 2.



7 billion light-years away from Earth in a constellation called Pegasus. "Euclid shows star-forming regions in unprecedented detail, uncovering 300,000 new objects in one shot, including free-floating planets that are four times the mass of Jupiter," said European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher following the release of the pictures. According to Space.

com, dark energy is the “placeholder name assigned to whatever force is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate” while dark matter doesn’t interact with light, which means it's basically invisible. This means the boffins are aware it can't be ‘ordinary’ matter – essentially it's a m.

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