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The article offers information on the Planck spacecraft that has made an impressive range of discoveries. It states that Planck is a satellite expressly designed to measure small temperature fluctuations in the heat left over from the Big Bang, also known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). It mentions that the satellite has, however, already produced a wide range of scientific results, some from Planck's survey of our own Milky Way Galaxy.

The article offers information in the history and development of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). It states that the organization was founded in 1889 which focuses its works mainly in astronomy. It presents the various programs offered by ASP and the highly professional staff it has. It also talks about the funding of the organization and the financial assistance it needed.

The article presents a speech by Bruce Partridge, president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), delivered at the Annual Meeting the ASP, September 2009, in which he discusses laboratory astrophysics, the contribution of astronomer Galileo Galilei and the story behind the discovery of gravity by physicist Isaac Newton.