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Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Planck reveals first stars were born late

05 Feb 2015

New maps from the Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed...

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Orion Nebula / M42

How to explore the whole universe: watch COSMO 2013 live

04 Sep 2013

Watch speakers such as Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox this evening as the public symposium of the 17th International Conference on Particle Physics...

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Planck captures portrait of the young Universe, revealing earliest light

21 Mar 2013

Satellite’s first all-sky image is the most detailed picture to date of the early Universe, giving us a better understanding of its birth.

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