ESA's Euclid Telescope Discovers New Comet

• The ESA's Euclid space telescope, launched in July 2026, discovered a new comet named C/2026 S1 (Euclid).
• The comet was discovered in images taken between September 16 and 24, 2026, 810 million miles from Earth.
• The Euclid telescope's primary mission is to observe billions of galaxies and measure their redshifts over 10 billion years of Universal expansion.
• The discovery of the comet is a surprising secondary finding of the telescope's mission.