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The European Space Agency Telescope, Euclid, Discovers Its First Comet

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Madrid, 19 Oct (EFE).- Euclid, the space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA), has discovered a new comet and, although it is not the first one detected by the mission, is the first unknown until now. The finding is impressive because the mission was designed to take deep and stable images of distant galaxies, not for [...] The entry The telescope of the European Space Agency, Euclid, discovers its first comet was first published in Hola…

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Madrid, 19 Oct (EFE).- Euclid, the space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA), has discovered a new comet and, although it is not the first one detected by the mission, is the first unknown until now. The finding is impressive because the mission was designed to take deep and stable images of distant galaxies, not for [...] The entry The telescope of the European Space Agency, Euclid, discovers its first comet was first published in Hola…

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The finding was made by Euclid, a mission designed to study dark matter and dark energy

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A new comet orbiting the Sun has just been discovered, purely by accident. Europe's Euclid space telescope, designed to study billions of galaxies and uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, spotted a previously unknown comet while observing the distant universe.

The European space telescope Euclid has discovered a previously unknown comet for the first time. Photographs from September 2026 show the celestial body C/2026 S1 (Euclid), whose discovery was officially confirmed on October 8. Unusual is the finding because Euclid actually maps distant galaxies and is supposed to keep moving objects of the solar system out of his images as far as possible. Paris (France). The 2023 [...] The article Space teles…

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scinexx.de broke the news on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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