European Space Agency has released what it says is the first ever image of the entire universe which will give scientists new insight into how the stars and galaxies form.
The all-sky image produced by space telescope Planck Canalso, tells how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.
The satellite was launched last year by the ESA under a 600-million euros project to record the origins of the universe. While the satellite was sent nearly a million miles into space, 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.
This multi-frequency all-sky image of the microwave sky has been composed using data from Planck covering the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 GHz to 857 GHz.
The mottled structure of the CMBR, with its tiny temperature fluctuations reflecting the primordial density variations from which today’s cosmic structure originated, is clearly visible in the high-latitude regions of the map. The central band is the plane of our Galaxy. A large portion of the image is dominated by the diffuse emission from its gas and dust. The image was derived from data collected by Planck during its first all-sky survey and comes from observations taken between August 2009 and June 2010. This image is a low- resolution version of the full data set.
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