Courtesy ESA HFI and LFI consortiaA new map created from data
gathered by the Planck Space Telescope shows new aspects of our
universe not before seen. The telescope’s sensors captured in
long wavelengths of light invisible to the human eye that show
gigantic plumes of dust and matter swirling above and below the
plane of our Milky Way galaxy. "What you see is the structure of
our galaxy in gas and dust, which tells us an awful lot about
what is going on in the neighborhood of the Sun; and it tells us
a lot about the way galaxies form when we compare this to other
galaxies."-- Professor Andrew Jaffe, Planck Space Telescope team
member The Planck research team hopes to answer several
questions concerning the origins and structures of the universe.
It will concentrate on the cosmic microwave background, the
remnant radiation from the Big Bang that permeates the entire
universe. It will also search out the secrets of other
phenomenon such as gravitational waves, and dark energy and
matter. A second version of th