In trying to explain the origins of the Universe scientists have taken a step-by-step approach, and ESA’s Planck is currently at the top of the staircase. Several experiments, both on Earth and in ...
Europe’s Planck satellite – a flagship mission for the UK Space Agency – has compiled the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (the relic radiation from the Big Bang). The ...
New maps from ESA’s Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought. The history ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A photograph of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile overlaid with a figure from its final ...
From October 2007 until mid-2022, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) looked at the millimeter and microwave universe. It discovered the most extreme galaxy cluster and many other peculiar things, ...