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PLANCK Media

Science Sources


ESA

PLANCK

Space.com

PLANCK Satellite Brings Early Universe into View

Sky & Telescope

PLANCK Upholds Standard Cosmology

CTC

PLANCK Satellites Results Made Public

Cosmos

Heavy metal stars, volcanic menace and a microwave mystery

 

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The Wire

A Microwave Peek into our Stellar Neighborhood

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Out of this world: why the most important art today is made in space

Santa Barbara Independent

Tracking Big Bang Echoes

PLANCK Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe

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