Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light

[G_j]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10501154.stm

Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light



By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.

The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.

It took the 700m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map.

It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths - much longer than what we can sense with our eyes.

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Dominating the foreground are large segments of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The bright horizontal line running the full length of the image is the galaxy's main disc - the plane in which the Sun and the Earth also reside.

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[Rex]

1. Wow

[gateley]

2. Of Max Planck fame? nt

[G_j]

3. in honour of,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_%28spacecraft%29

The project—initially called COBRAS/SAMBA after its approval—is named in honour of the German scientist Max Planck (1858–1947), who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918.

[gateley]

7. Thanks! nt

[G_j]

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[G_j]

5. I just thought this was pretty awesome

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[Soylent Brice]

6. an amazing and humbling image.

thanks for posting.

:)

[Scurrilous]

8. Amazing.

K & R :thumbsup:

[G_j]

9. **

[G_j]

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