Planck

past Mission

Type

Space Telescope

Launch

May 14, 2009

Target

Universe

Objective

Observe radiation from the beginnings of the universe

The Planck satellite spent four years giving us a “baby picture” of the cosmos, by making a high-resolution map of the oldest light in the universe, the cosmic microwave background emitted 13.8 billion years ago when the universe was only 470,000 years old.

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