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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.

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

wormcode wrote: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 wrote:

wormcode wrote: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

wormcode wrote:

DRTY wrote:

wormcode wrote: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.

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

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

snuff wrote:literally breath taking....

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