07-05-2010, 10:15 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_e...501154.stm
Quote:This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.
The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map.
It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths - much longer than what we can sense with our eyes. ...