Planck Mission

Planck has scan the entire sky five times in 30 months. This ESA space telescope has acquired 1000 billion of measurements to build the most accurate map ever of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation from the Big Bang. The spacecraft spins at 1 rotation per minute around an axis offset by ~85? so that the observed sky region trace a large circle on the sky. As the spin axis follows the Sun the circle observed by the instruments sweeps through the sky at a rate of 1? per day. (Photo by Frederic CASTEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Planck has scan the entire sky five times in 30 months. This ESA space telescope has acquired 1000 billion of measurements to build the most accurate map ever of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the relic radiation from the Big Bang. The spacecraft spins at 1 rotation per minute around an axis offset by ~85? so that the observed sky region trace a large circle on the sky. As the spin axis follows the Sun the circle observed by the instruments sweeps through the sky at a rate of 1? per day. (Photo by Frederic CASTEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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