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Planck's First Image of Space... Past and Present | Hold Your Breath!

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Planck's first image of space, past and present

Xeni Jardin at 11:36 AM Monday, Jul 5, 2010



The European Space Agency today released the first image of space obtained by the Planck mission.

Shown above, the image includes emissions from dust in our own galaxy and faint ripples of the cosmic microwave background that is light left behind from The Big Bang.

This is the first all-sky map from the spacecraft, which will complete four surveys before its mission ends in 2012. A good explanatory article here on SpaceFlight Now (click on link).

(image courtesy ESA/ LFI & HFI Consortia; Thanks, Dave Clements)
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4 comments // Planck's First Image of Space... Past and Present | Hold Your Breath!

  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • I may be wrong but I believe its all part of the bubble theory, that space as we know it is an expanding bubble in the space time web with possibly millions more just like ours and the same physics and some different with totally different set of physical laws. Crazy shit

    • 1 year ago
  • idealist
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      likeamazing  
    • idealist:

      i don't think there's anything outside the oval since it is an all sky view, the image would just wrap around and connect to itself. imagine yourself inside a tylenol gelcap. please correct me if i'm wrong experts...

    • 1 year ago
  • idealist
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