The European Space Agency’s Planck space observatory was launched in 2009 together with the Herschel satellite. Planck's objective is to analyse, with the highest accuracy ever achieved, the remnants of the radiation that filled the Universe immediately after the Big Bang (Cosmic Microwave Background – CMB).
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Last updated: 08 June 2017