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HTTP:: Planck Starts Observing the Beginning of the Universe
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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, the same Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket also delivered the Herschel Space Telescope to a similar L2 Lagrangian orbital point. The main goal of the Planck mission is to analyze the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and determine how the Universe formed. Using complex and state-of-the-art scientific instruments, over the next few years, Planck will look at this background light, and record any small variations within it, which may hint at yet undiscovered phenomena that took place in the first few seconds after the Big Bang. These variations, if uncovered, could also lead astronomers to new theories about dark matter and dark energy, and explain a wide array of pecul!
iar events that astronomers cannot yet account for. The new observations, which began on August 13, are only part of a test trial, but, if all goes well, mission controllers announce that, over the next 15 months or so, two full-sky scans of the entire Universe will be conducted. Actual scientific data from the mission are not ex...
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