Incredible New Microwave Map of the Entire Sky
WiredThe Planck satellite released its first microwave radiation map of the entire sky. "This single image captures both our own cosmic backyard -- the Milky Way galaxy that we live in -- but also the subtle imprint of the Big Bang from which the whole universe emerged," David Parker of the U.K. Space Agency said in a press release July 5. The yellow-spotted areas are the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, which the oldest light in the universe. Planck records microwave radiation in nine different frequency bands, which will help scientists separate the light from the galaxy and the light from the early universe. "Once we’ve done that, and stripped away these foregrounds, then it’s on to the Cosmic Microwave Background and the glow of the Big Bang itself!” Image: ESA, LFI, HFI Consortia*.
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