Europoean Union sponsered Planck mission will launch May 29, 2009, from Kourou, French Guiana.
This mission will help answer one of the most important sets of questions asked in modern science – how did the Universe begin, how did it evolve to the state we observe today, and how will it continue to evolve in the future?
Planck’s objective is to analyse, with the highest accuracy ever achieved (within fractions of seconds), the remnants of the radiation that filled the Universe immediately after the Big Bang, which we observe today as the Cosmic Microwave Background.
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