News articles tagged with 'Planck'
Planck unveils wonders of the Universe
— 11 Jan 2011 17:02 | AstronomyThe first scientific results from Europe's Planck spacecraft featuring the coldest objects in the Universe have today been released…
Planck satellite finds new galaxy supercluster
— 17 Sep 2010 08:35 | AstronomySurveying the microwave sky, the Planck satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) has obtained qualitatively new images of galaxy clusters - even revealing one of them to be a previously…
Planck unveils the Universe - now and then
— 5 Jul 2010 14:08 | AstronomyESA's Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life…
Planck highlights the complexity of star formation
— 27 Apr 2010 11:12 | AstronomyNew images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our…
Planck sees tapestry of cold dust
— 18 Mar 2010 13:28 | AstronomyGiant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that…
Planck first light yields promising results
— 17 Sep 2009 13:24 | AstronomyPlanck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2, on 13 August.…
Planck telescope sees light billions of years old
— 14 Aug 2009 10:46 | AstronomyThe Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our Universe. The mission, which is led by the European Space Agency with important…
Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around second Lagrange point
— 4 Jul 2009 12:25 | AstronomyOn 2 July, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273 C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft…
Herschel and Planck commissioning has begun
— 21 May 2009 11:26 | AstronomyAfter a perfect injection by the Ariane 5 launcher on 14 May, the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for Herschel and Planck has started to wind down, while commissioning…
Rocket carrying Herschel and Planck lifts off
— 14 May 2009 13:40 | AstronomyAt 13:12 GMT, at the beginning of a 55-minute launch window, the Herschel and Planck satellite pair lifted off on board an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.…