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Daniel Lawler

Europe Space Telescope's Sight Restored After De-icing Procedure

The Horsehead Nebula, one of the first images captured by Europe's Euclid space telescope (Credit: AFP)

The vision of the Euclid space telescope has been restored following a delicate operation that successfully melted a thin layer of ice that had been clouding its sight, the European Space Agency announced on Tuesday.

There had been fears that the creeping ice could delay the mission of Europe's space telescope, which blasted off in July on the world's first mission to investigate the cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

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