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Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope gets de-iced from a million miles away

Just like drivers scrape ice from car windshields during the winter, scientists with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid observatory are trying to “de-ice” the telescope — from a million miles away. Ice layers, about as wide as a single DNA strand, have accumulated on Euclid’s mirrors. Although small, the ice appears to have caused […]