Project News

Planck Spots Colossal Intergalactic Bridge

Planck • November 20th, 2012

The Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space.

NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions

Planck • April 5th, 2012

NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European...

All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

Planck • February 13th, 2012

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.

Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe

Planck • January 11th, 2011

The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky.

Planck Takes It All In

Planck • July 6th, 2010

A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year -- surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.

Planck Sees a Cold and Stormy Orion

Planck • April 26th, 2010

The big hunter in the sky is seen in a new light by Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation.

Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold Dust

Planck • March 17th, 2010

Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe.

Planck Snaps its First Images of Ancient Cosmic Light

Planck • September 17th, 2009

The Planck mission has captured its first rough images of the sky, demonstrating the observatory is working and ready to measure light from the dawn of time.