Astronomers looking at data from the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission have concluded that the universe is only going to get "colder and deader" from here on out. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big one, exploring the structure and evolution of the universe across billions of years.

"The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky," ESA explains .

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