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Planck Spies Massive Dust Clouds
from BBC News Online
Europe's Planck observatory has given another brief glimpse of its work. The space telescope's main goal is to map the "oldest light" in the Universe, but this data is being kept under wraps until the surveying is complete.
Instead, Planck scientists have released a snapshot of the colossal swathes of cold dust that spread through the Milky Way galaxy. Such imagery will be very useful to astronomers seeking to understand star formation.
It is in the regions of space that are most dense in terms of gas and dust that are likely to give rise to new suns. The latest Planck pictures will be of special interest to researchers working on the European Space Agency's (Esa) other great telescope, Herschel. This observatory is investigating processes that trigger the creation of stars.
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