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On Saturday, January 14, the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck spacecraft ran out of its absolutely-essential coolant. While this marks the end of HFI's operating life, it also marks the completion of the first survey of residual light from the Big Bang.
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17 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the first all-sky survey scheduled to be carried out by the High Frequency Instrument (HFI), aboard the ESA Planck spacecraft, has just been completed. The study finally reveals a map of the residual one left behind by the Big Bang.
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16 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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According to a recent announcement made by astronomers, it would appear that dust particles inside interstellar clouds can spin faster than ten billion times each second. In the attached photo, the red regions are microwave emissions believed to originate from such fast-spinning particles. The phenomenon has thus far... |
14 January 2011
11:00 GMT |
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The first findings made by the Planck telescope were presented in two separate events held yesterday. Among its chief achievements, the observatory managed to discover some of the coldest objects in space, and also some of the most distant and old galaxy superclusters.The European Space Agency held a press conference... |
12 January 2011
03:09 GMT |
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At a press conference held in Paris, France today, January 11, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) presented the first scientific results of the Plank mission, which observes the Universe and its microwave background at very high resolution.Most of the announcements that were made today had to do with some o... |
11 January 2011
11:01 GMT |
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This first one-year all-sky survey is a microwave image of the Universe. It gives information about the way galaxies form and also about the way the Universe evolved just after the Big Bang.In the center of the image is the Milky Way's main disc and clouds of intergalactic dust surround it. This net is where ne... |
5 July 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) are delighted to announce the one-year anniversary of the spectacular launch that saw two of the most advanced space telescopes ever built taken to Earth's orbit. On May 14, 2009, an Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system, carrying the Herschel Space Observatory and the Pl... |
14 May 2010
09:09 GMT |
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Launched together with the Herschel Space Observatory, the Planck Telescope is one of the European Space Agency's (ESA) most prized possessions, and the most advanced and sensitive scientific instrument of its type. It was deployed to study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the remnant radiation that was le... |
26 April 2010
12:37 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) can now be proud of the amazing instrument it is managing. The Planck Space Telescope is undoubtedly one of the most advanced pieces of equipments sent to space, as evidenced by the volume of work that went in it, as well as by the amazing results it is constantly sending back to Earth... |
17 March 2010
07:05 GMT |
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It has become widely accepted among scientists that our Universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old. It's also known that the diameter of the observable Universe measures at least 93 billion light-years. However, if this is true, there is a hitch. In 13.7 billion light-years, light can only travel 13.7 billion li... |
25 September 2009
09:05 GMT |
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The recently launched Planck telescope finally began to observe the Universe on August 13th, during a test-observation period. Built specifically by the European Space Agency (ESA) to analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation left behind when the Cosmos first exploded into being, the telescop... |
17 September 2009
09:33 GMT |
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The recently launched Planck telescope has just begun observing the early Universe, accumulating background radiation that was most likely created when the Universe first sprung into being. The mission is conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA), with vast collaboration from NASA. In addition to the observatory, ... |
14 August 2009
10:33 GMT |
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The level of complexity at which Planck does its science never failed to amaze anyone looking deeper into its capabilities. In addition to the peculiar point in space where its orbit lies, at the Lagrangian point 2, some 1.5 million kilometers away from us, it also features another remarkable trait – it's ... |
4 July 2009
03:31 GMT |
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After being successfully launched in May, together with the Planck Space Telescope, the billion-euro Herschel has finally ejected the cover protecting its delicate instruments from radiation, as it nears the final destination of its 1.5 million kilometers to the L2 point in orbit. Yesterday, mission controllers sent ... |
15 June 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has just reached a critical point in its mission, as it got nearly halfway to its destination, the Lagrangian point L2. The delicate observatory has already started making a series of maneuvers in space, all aimed at pushing it onto the correct path to the L2. The mov... |
9 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Telescope, which was launched on May 14th, has sent back its first set of flight data, but not through conventional channels, but via the use of mobile phone technology, the same type employed by GSM networks. The observatory, currently inbound to its Lagrangian (L) 2 orbital point, contacted ESA&#... |
20 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Yesterday, aeronautics company Arianespace managed to launch its 40th successful mission to orbit, safely carrying the Herschel and Planck space telescopes to their intermediary destination aboard an Ariane 5 delivery system. The picture-perfect launch, which took place at 6:12 am Pacific Time (9:12 am EDT / 1312 GMT... |
15 May 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Ten years in the making, the Herschel/Planck mission has just been officially deemed a resounding success. Arianespace's live webcast of the lift-off procedure showed a picture-perfect launch, with the Ariane 5 delivery system thundering away from the Guiana Space Center, in French Guyana, South America. Under a... |
14 May 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Today, the ESA-operated Guiana Space Center, in South America, will launch an Ariane 5 delivery system, which will carry two new space telescopes, Herschel and Planck, to a transfer orbit. After several delays, the mission was finally confirmed a few days ago, and everything looks set for today's launch. The two... |
14 May 2009
03:08 GMT |
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The Herschel and Planck space observatories will lift off tomorrow (May 14th) from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Kourou spaceport, in the French Guiana, South America. The two craft will be delivered to orbit by the same Ariane 5 carrier vehicle, which has recorded a large percentage of successful deliveries... |
13 May 2009
01:45 GMT |
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In addition to launching two observatories at the same time, the May 14th launch event, scheduled to take place at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Kourou spaceport, in the French Guyana, will also see the first time the new horizontal separation system HSS-3 being used. It was designed specifically to reduce t... |
5 May 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Preparations for the scheduled May 14th launch of the European Space Agency's twin observatories, Herschel and Planck, are now developing at full speed, officials from the agency have recently announced. After the Planck telescope was installed over the core stage of its carrying Ariane 5 delivery system last we... |
4 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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After a number of delays, prompted by technical concerns over the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel and Planck twin telescopes, mission controllers at the agency's Kourou spaceport, in the French Guyana, South America, finally gave the mission the green light. The two observatories will be launched on ... |
29 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the launching date for its Herschel and Planck observation satellites, so as to give the German Space Operations Center (ESOC) the time they need to debug a newly-installed software. The program is meant to guide the two satellites during their launch and early operation p... |
15 March 2009
05:57 GMT |
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