News tagged with planck microwave observatory
Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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Planck spacecraft follows Herschel to launch site
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA’s microwave observatory that will study the relic radiation of the Big Bang, was shipped from Ličge, Belgium, to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 18 February. ...
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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Europe's 'Big Bang' observatory completes cosmic survey
A 900-million-dollar orbital observatory has completed the biggest-ever search for remnants of the "Big Bang" that created the Universe, the European Space Agency said on Monday.
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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The warped ways of cosmic light
Albert Einstein predicted them, modern giant telescopes detected them – and Klaus Dolag simulates them on a computer: gravitational lenses. The academic staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Planck unveils wonders of the Universe (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing today in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Europe maintains its presence on the final frontier
ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions. This will enable ESA's world-class science missions to continue returning pioneering results until at least 2014.
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Planck detects new supercluster of galaxies
Surveying the microwave sky, Planck has obtained its very first images of galaxy clusters, amongst the largest objects in the Universe, by means of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, a characteristic signature ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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'L2' Will be the James Webb Space Telescope's Home in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- When you ask an astronomer about the James Webb Space Telescope's orbit, they'll tell you something that sounds like it came from a science-fiction novel. The Webb won't be orbiting the Earth ...
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Jun 23, 2010 |
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Probing the dark side of the universe
Advancing into the next frontier in astrophysics and cosmology depends on our ability to detect the presence of a particular type of wave in space, a primordial gravitational wave. Much like ripples moving ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Planck highlights the complexity of star formation
New 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 Galaxy.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Madly Mapping the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...
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Feb 04, 2010 |
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Listening for Gravitational Echoes of the Universe's Birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe.
Aug 19, 2009 |
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