Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light

[Motorway to Roswell]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_ ... 501154.stm

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.

Dominating the foreground are large segments of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The bright horizontal line running the full length of the image is the galaxy's main disc - the plane in which the Sun and the Earth also reside.

[DRTY]

fucking incredible

Space =

[particle-jim]

saw this in this mornings metro... bricks wer shat!

[cb8051]

Cosmology stories make every day better.

[DRTY]

http://www.ted.com/talks/carter_emmart_ ... verse.html

[nicenice]

I really want to jump into that picture, that place looks incredible.

[Motorway to Roswell]

I really want to jump into that picture, that place looks incredible.

You're already in it.

[wormcode]

Anyone find a hi res version of that image yet? It's just begging to become wallpaper.

Couple of other recent images from Planck: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/index.html

[DRTY]

Anyone find a hi res version of that image yet? It's just begging to become wallpaper.

Couple of other recent images from Planck: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/index.html

Here ya go

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?colle ... nce&type=I

Not that hi res, but some seriously cool pictures

[cb8051]

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[Coppola]

Too big to post but look at this
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... DLopez.jpg

[wormcode]

Anyone find a hi res version of that image yet? It's just begging to become wallpaper.

Couple of other recent images from Planck: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/index.html

Here ya go

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?colle ... nce&type=I

Not that hi res, but some seriously cool pictures

Thanks. Yeah that was the first place I checked too. I was hoping some of those 10MB+ TIFF images were around.

[jigglypuff]

waaaah spectacular I want to ascend into the cosmos listening to moments in love - art of noise, im gonna go watch star trek now

[DRTY]

Anyone find a hi res version of that image yet? It's just begging to become wallpaper.

Couple of other recent images from Planck: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/index.html

Here ya go

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?colle ... nce&type=I

Not that hi res, but some seriously cool pictures

Thanks. Yeah that was the first place I checked too. I was hoping some of those 10MB+ TIFF images were around.

Seems unlikely really, I'd guess they'll remain private for a while as they can license the images but no doubt they'll release high res eventually, be rude not to

[Kochari]

Too big to post but look at this
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... DLopez.jpg

what in the name of fuck is that?!

[64hz]

stars motherfucker.



a timelapse photo, (or whatever theyre called) of the stars rotating round the pole star.

[d-T-r]

http://www.ted.com/talks/carter_emmart_ ... verse.html

nice one for that. just had alook, the digital universe atlas is free/open source too!

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/download

[snuff]

literally breath taking....

how on earth are there still creationists floating around....

[ketamine]

literally breath taking....

how on earth are there still creationists floating around....

How can you look at that and NOT believe in intelligent design

[capo ultra]

in b4 20+pages religious arguments then lock