Earlier this month another interplanetary
explorer caught a striking glimpse of Earth, this one captured as the spacecraft, a European probe called Rosetta, approached our planet from deep
space.
WFIRST's data should complement the observations of several other dark - energy
explorers set to come online in the
early 2020s, such as the European
Space Agency's Euclid probe, says Rachel Mandelbaum, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.