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dracodraconisBBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos
 Next week the ESA will put the largest space telescope, the 3.5 metre Herschel Telescope, into orbit at Lagrance point 2, 1.5 million kilometres from earth. Also being launched on the same mission is the Planck telescope that views the sky in the microwave wavelength. |