New images from the European Space Agency’s Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas ...

The history of our Universe began 13.8 billion years ago and for researchers trying to understand its evolution, one major source of information is the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB. This fossil ...

The European Space Agency has just released the first set of comprehensive results from its Planck mission, which has been mapping the cosmic microwave background in order to discover the nature and ...

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The first stars in the Universe lit up later than was previously thought. That is the conclusion of scientists working on Europe's Planck satellite, which has made the most precise map of the "oldest ...

New images from the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas ...