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As for Planck, the second telescope, it is set to look at residual radiation left over from the "Big Bang", believed to have created the Universe some 14 billion years ago. The goal is to find out whether the Universe will either expand forever, or one day start to shrink.
EU launches the largest rockets in space
Herschel and Planck, the two massive telescopes carried on this rocket will be getting to work, 1.5 million kilometers away from earth. To collect data on the most distant stars ever observed galaxies formed at the dawn of time, over 10 billion years ago, which will help us understand how our own sun and solar system were formed.
Europe sets telescopes to study about universe
As for Planck, the second telescope, it is set to look at residual radiation left over from the "Big Bang", believed to have created the Universe some 14 billion years ago. The goal is to find out whether the Universe will either expand forever, or one day start to shrink.

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