PARIS (AFP): The deep-space Planck telescope was switched off Wednesday after a successful 4.5-year mission that revealed our Universe to be 80 million years older than previously thought, the European Space Agency said. Mission controllers in Darmstadt, Germany, sent the final command to the satellite on Wednesday afternoon. The satellite will now be “parked” in a safe orbit around the Sun, far away from the Earth and Moon, where it will stay for hundreds of years.