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Artist's concept of Spitzer, Planck and Kepler spacecrafts

NASA Extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck Missions

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

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This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky, as seen by Planck.

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

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

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Artist's concept of the Planck spacecraft

Planck Telescope Warms up as Planned

One of Planck's two instruments has warmed up as expected, completing its survey of the early universe.

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Mission Images

Galactic Haze seen by Planck and Galactic 'bubbles' ...

This all-sky image shows the distribution of the galactic haze seen by ESA's Planck mission at microwave frequencies superimposed over the high-energy sky, as seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

This all-sky image shows the distribution of the galactic haze seen by ESA's Planck mission at microwave frequencies superimposed over the high-energy sky, as seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...

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The mysterious Galactic Haze seen by Planck

This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations.

This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations. In addition to this component, other foreground ...

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All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular ...

This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky, as seen by Planck.

This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular clouds across the sky, as seen by Planck.

Molecular clouds, the dense ...

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News and Features

Mission Overview

    Planck is a European Space Agency mission with significant participation from NASA. NASA played key roles in the mission's development, and will provide important contributions to data and science analyses.
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