The Planck space telescope European Space Agency (ESA) has drawn the most complete map of the universe developed to date, an image of the entire sky has offered new evidence on the formation of stars and galaxies and to study the early stages of formation of the cosmos.
"With these results we are opening the door through which scientists can find the missing links that allow us to understand how the universe formed and how it has evolved since then," said the director of Science and Robotic Exploration ESA , David Southwood.
According to NASA, this first full-sky image is a "special treasure, full of unpublished data for astronomers, as it reflects from the regions closest to the Milky Way to the limits of space and time. The disk of the Milky Way stretches across the center of the image. The first thing you notice is the filament of dust and gas extending above and below the galaxy, just where new stars are forming. More intriguing is the mottled background image, which presents the "cosmic microwave background '(CRMB, for its acronym in English), the oldest light in the Cosmos, with debris from the explosion that occurred about 13,700 million years and gave birth to the Universe.
Cosmic microwave fondoEl pattern is the fingerprint of what today forms the clusters and superclusters of galaxies, and can observe how the Cosmos was moments after its creation. The different colors represent tiny differences in temperature and density of matter in the universe. The CMBR is spread all over the map, but appears largely hidden behind the radiation from the Milky Way. Therefore, in the post-processing of data is deleted the contribution of the Milky Way to observe the cosmic background radiation in its entirety.
When this completed, Planck will be able to show the most accurate picture of the cosmic background radiation ever obtained. The big question now is whether the data may reveal the traces of primitive period known as "cosmic inflation." The hypothesis postulated that during this period, which took place just after the Big Bang, the universe expanded exponentially in a very short period of time. "This image is just a small taste of everything you can see Planck," he completed project scientist for the ESA Planck, Jan Tauber.
"With these results we are opening the door through which scientists can find the missing links that allow us to understand how the universe formed and how it has evolved since then," said the director of Science and Robotic Exploration ESA , David Southwood.
According to NASA, this first full-sky image is a "special treasure, full of unpublished data for astronomers, as it reflects from the regions closest to the Milky Way to the limits of space and time. The disk of the Milky Way stretches across the center of the image. The first thing you notice is the filament of dust and gas extending above and below the galaxy, just where new stars are forming. More intriguing is the mottled background image, which presents the "cosmic microwave background '(CRMB, for its acronym in English), the oldest light in the Cosmos, with debris from the explosion that occurred about 13,700 million years and gave birth to the Universe.
Cosmic microwave fondoEl pattern is the fingerprint of what today forms the clusters and superclusters of galaxies, and can observe how the Cosmos was moments after its creation. The different colors represent tiny differences in temperature and density of matter in the universe. The CMBR is spread all over the map, but appears largely hidden behind the radiation from the Milky Way. Therefore, in the post-processing of data is deleted the contribution of the Milky Way to observe the cosmic background radiation in its entirety.
When this completed, Planck will be able to show the most accurate picture of the cosmic background radiation ever obtained. The big question now is whether the data may reveal the traces of primitive period known as "cosmic inflation." The hypothesis postulated that during this period, which took place just after the Big Bang, the universe expanded exponentially in a very short period of time. "This image is just a small taste of everything you can see Planck," he completed project scientist for the ESA Planck, Jan Tauber.
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