The word is in, folks, and the unsettlingly ambitious Planck space telescope from the European Space Agency has started returning images.  Sadly, those images aren’t being released to the public yet, but word is that they’re extremely impressive.

The European version of the Hubble was recently launched on the same rocket as the Henschel space telescope, leading to a whole lot of nail-biting as to whether or not the two would inadvertently go up in a fireball together because they were launched on the same rocket without anything even resembling a redundancy.

Of course, nothing happened, and the two made it up safely and are now returning images, which hopefully we’ll get to see before too much longer has happened.  It’s out at one of the so-called LaGrange points, a stable gravitational point just shy of a million miles from Earth, and the pictures it’s taking are of radiation in the universe to give us a better idea of what it looked like a long time ago.

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