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Satellite Planck. Artwork

by

ESA/D.Ducros/Novapix

Reference

e-sou12-10003

Date

2009-04-16

Artist view of ESA's Planck observatory. Planck is the first european mission to study the relic radiation from the Big Bang. Ever since the detection of small fluctuations in the temperature of this radiation, called Cosmic Microwave Background, astronomers have used the fluctuations to understand both the origin of the Universe and the formation of galaxies.