[NormsRevenge]

Planck maps tiny temperature variations(the mottled colours in the strip) in nine frequency ranges overlaid here. These fluctuations correspond to the matter distribution in the early cosmos. Planck needs six months to complete a full sky map. Esa released more detailed data on the square regions.

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/index.html

[wendy1946]

The European telescope sent far from Earth to study the oldest light in the Universe has returned its first images. The Planck observatory, launched in May, is surveying radiation that first swept out across space just 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

What big bang??

[La Lydia]

Kwel album cover.

[wendy1946]

The big bang idea is basically bad physics and bad theology rolled into a package and should be rejected on purely philosophical grounds before you even start talking about Halton Arp or anything like that. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes; nothing would ever bang its way out of that.

Likewise for a supposedly omniscient and omnipotent God to suddenly (17B or 6K years ago, doesn't even matter) decide it would be cool to create a universe while the idea had never occurred to him in the infinite expanse of time prior to that is basically nonsensical.

[BlueDragon]

L_{2 is getting crowded? wait...two (WMAP & Planck) is not a crowd...but wonder how much other debris might be drifting along at that (moving) locale...}

[SunkenCiv]

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[LibWhacker]

It’s SOOOO COOL that they decided to start by mapping the Big Mobius Strip in the sky first!