{"id":166759,"date":"2023-07-02T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/european-telescope-launched-to-hunt-for-clues-to-universes-darkest-secrets"},"modified":"2023-07-02T07:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:23:16","slug":"european-telescope-launched-to-hunt-for-clues-to-universes-darkest-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/european-telescope-launched-to-hunt-for-clues-to-universes-darkest-secrets","title":{"rendered":"European telescope launched to hunt for clues to universe\u2019s darkest secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/european-telescope-launched-to-hunt-for-clues-to-universes-darkest-secrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the European Space Agency\u2019s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope\u2019s neighborhood. It will take a month to get there and another two months before it starts its ambitious six-year survey this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers in Germany declared success nearly an hour into the flight, applauding and shouting \u201cYes!\u201d as the telescope phoned home after a smooth liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency\u2019s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope\u2019s neighborhood. It will take a month [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}