BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos

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BBC 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.

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[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

And unlike the Hubble that just keeps going until the hardware breaks down. Or Voyager that just keeps going.