Topic: All-Sky Stunner from Planck

[sam]

After a year of observations, the Planck observatory team released an all-sky microwave image, and what a gorgeous image it is! The Planck satellite looks at the entire sky in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, (30 to 857 GHz) with the main goal of tracking down the echoes of the Big Bang, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB.) This new image reveals the cosmic signal is literally hidden behind a fog of foreground emission, arising mostly from the interstellar medium (ISM), the diffuse mixture of gas and dust filling our Galaxy.

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/07/05/all-sky-stunner-from-planck/

[Clive]

This is COBE revisited.  What a difference 20 years of technological advance has made.  Now to look for evidence of inflation.  

[sam]

lots here

[Clive]