Herschel and Planck

A video by ESA regarding the Herschel & Planck space observatories due for launch in Feb 2009. Date- 1st Dec 08 Source- http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmghome.pl

'Herschel, the largest telescope ever launched, will study objects within and outside our Galaxy. It will be able to peer through clouds of gas and dust and observe stars as they form.
Unlike Herschel, Planck will rotate continuously about its axis, scanning the whole sky to compile the most detailed and complete map ever of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB. This CMB radiation is the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang, which occurred about 14 thousand million years ago.

Herschel and Planck will be launched together atop an Ariane 5 rocket in spring 2009.'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• herschel
• planck
• european
• space
• agency

[mlomailom]

Hereschel: named after Si WIlliam Herschel, A German born British scientist, Found IR. 'Cos herschel observatory operates on far IR region!

Planck: Named in the honor of Max Planck, a pioneer Physicist.

Are you fucking dumb motherfucker to call 'em boring?

Stupid-ass-retard.

[GUAlliance]

Cant wait to watch the launch live... *checks watch* under 3 hours to go!

Anyone can check it on on the ESA website

[fade2black244]

Neato. :)

[FightforDeath34]

man those guys are so boring. VERY BORING NAME!

planck? what the hell. they should do some cooler name :P

i dunno but a cool 1.

peace

[itsthechrizzle]

cant wait till launch, i give tours at ESA ESTEC, and talked about this satelite for several weeks, when it was in the testing stage

[KyotoMelody]

It is! :)

[homousios]

yes this is exciting.

[wolverine005]

Very exciting. Thanks for all the videos! :)