News

ESA and the Planck Collaboration . This image unveiled March 21, 2013, shows the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory.
The European Planck Space Observatory revealed the universe is older than thought: 13.82 billion years old. See the role of the Cosmic Microwave Background here.
Fuelling operations for the Planck spacecraft have been successfully completed last week. The filling of the propellant tanks with hydrazine liquid was performed in the S5A building at the Centre ...
Launched in 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Planck space telescope has spent years soaking up radiation from the furthest most reaches of the universe. One of its major tasks has been ...
In 2009, the Planck spacecraft began its observations of the cosmos, and the program continued until 2013. Planck was designed to look for anisotropy, or non-uniformity, in the cosmic microwave ...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and ...
After hunting for the earliest clues about the evolution of the universe for more than four years, Europe's Planck space observatory has gone dark. Officials with the European Space Agency sent ...
Home / Europe’s Planck Space Telescope Shuts Down. Posted in Civil Europe’s Planck Space Telescope Shuts Down by SpaceNews Editor October 28, 2013 January 20, 2023.
The Planck space telescope, shown here in an artist's conception, took a long exposure of what the universe looked like 13.82 billion years ago. [/] In this Mollweide ...
Scattered across the vacuum of space are stars, galaxies, stellar remnants and other objects that are billions upon billions of years old. The age of the universe is now thought to be about 13.8 ...
If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.
The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...