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Planck telescope reveals universe image
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The first image of the entire universe taken from Europe's Planck telescope has been published.


he first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the oldest light in the cosmos  Photo: ESA

The satellite, costing 600m euros, was launched last year by the European Space Agency.

It was sent nearly a million miles into space to record the origins of the universe. The Planck observatory's job was to look at the age, contents and evolution of the cosmos by studying the heat left behind by the Big Bang.

In September it began to reveal its first images showing strips of ancient light across the sky. Now it has revealed a full picture of the sky.

The image shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths.

Dominating the picture are large parts of our Milky Way Galaxy. The bright horizontal line running across the middle of the image is the galaxy's main disc and where the Sun and Earth are.

Also seen are huge bursts of cold dust that reach thousands of light-years above and below the galactic plane.

Scientists will spend years analysing the image to better understand how the Universe came to look the way it does.

"What you see is the structure of our galaxy in gas and dust, which tells us an awful lot about what is going on in the neighbourhood of the Sun; and it tells us a lot about the way galaxies form when we compare this to other galaxies," Professor Andrew Jaffe, a Planck team member from Imperial College London, told BBC News.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7872190/Planck-telescope-reveals-universe-image.html


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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: LobsterSauce]
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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: LobsterSauce]
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I just saw this on that new Morgan Freeman show.  Interesting stuff; I mean that image there is when the universe was only about 300,000 years old.  In the grand scheme of things, it's pretty much a newborn.

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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: grischnackh]
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That's not part of the pic, thats the background.

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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Newbie] * 1
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This is incredibly awesome. It blows my mind that we are able to achieve such things.

+1 for human achievement.

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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Disgustipated]
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That makes me feel so small and insignificant. Amazing.


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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Bridgeburner]
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This is the universe or the galaxy? How would the milky way be visible on a map of the entire universe?


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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Rocker232]
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I assume it's just our galaxy? I don't think you can take a picture of the entire universe when you're stuck in it :smile:

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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Brugman]
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I can see my house from here.


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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: mongo lloyd]
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We're in our galaxy so the smear of the milky way is going to be getting in the way a little bit. This is so cool though compared to the last CMB picture


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Re: Planck telescope reveals universe image [Re: Glenners]
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The article and headline seem misleading. It's not even close to possible to image the entire universe in a year. The last time I heard Planck was doing microwave/radio observation of the entire sky, but the researchers weren't presumptuous enough to say the "entire universe."

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"What you see is the structure of our galaxy in gas and dust, which tells us an awful lot about what is going on in the neighbourhood of the Sun; and it tells us a lot about the way galaxies form when we compare this to other galaxies," Professor Andrew Jaffe, a Planck team member from Imperial College London, told BBC News.

But isn't that typical of the newspapers to confuse concepts like cosmos, universe, galaxy, cluster, galactic filaments, etc etc? Or is that a bad stereotype like federally owned and run passenger train service?


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