Planck's capabilities mean it will provide one of the best checks yet for non-gaussianity.
For the more distant parts of the Universe, Planck itself can do the test.
Planck will be the third spacecraft to investigate the CMB, after Nasa's COBE and WMAP satellites.
Planck data also suggest that our universe has more dark matter than previously thought.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology have made an astonishing innovation in imaging.
Esa's Planck project scientist, Dr Jan Tauber, will not be drawn on the findings before the release in Paris.
Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr.
Kamionkowski compared the Planck map to the Human Genome Project in terms of its importance for cosmology.
Planck will need three manoeuvres in total to put it in a much tighter "hover" about L2.
Planck investigator Professor George Efstathiou from Cambridge University, UK, thinks the telescope could throw up fundamentally new discoveries.
That is very important for Herschel and Planck which will both be investigating aspects of the "cold Universe".
The energy that would be needed to probe the granularity of space is known as the Planck energy.
Planck hoped that Germans would stick to gymnastics, seen as better at producing young men fit for military service.
But the thousands of today's Germans heading for Wembley Saturday will prove that Planck failed and British sport triumphed.
"It's a big deal, " said Charles Lawrence, Planck project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a news briefing.
Planck represents the third generation of attempts to map the cosmic microwave background.
The resulting reading for h will be fixed by fiat and, with it, the Planck-related definition of the kilogram.
The precise nature of this pattern, Dr Benatti says, depends on Planck-scale physics.
"If you know what you're looking at outside, you can use the distortions to say something about the glass, " the Planck researcher said.
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To imagine planck time, think of every moment in the history of everything as a frame on a reel of film.
More official presentations of the Planck data are underway at a conference of the European Space Agency today in the Netherlands.
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At the risk of oversimplifying, this is the lack of noticeably non-random fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background spectrum measured by Planck.
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He did not try to derive anything but took Planck's quantum model as a fact and tried to learn what it meant.
Currently, only one spacecraft inhabits L2: the US space agency's WMAP probe (which is making observations on which Planck hopes to build).
The Planck telescope is aboard a spacecraft that launched in May 2009.
Europe's Planck telescope, which last week showed us a picture of the oldest light streaming across the Universe, has another trick up its sleeve.
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Nor need physicists look only to the sky to see Planck-scale effects.
New data from the Planck satellite suggests very good news for proponents of the standard Big Bang cosmological model of the universe.
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Gerd Gigerenzer, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, thinks that instead they should boast about using heuristics.
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But because Planck's map is so much more detailed than anything previously obtained, it is also possible to see some anomalies in it.
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