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SPACE-OBSERVATION-PLANCK
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A handout photo provided on January 11, 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows an image from the Planck Surveyor satellite representing the sky in microwaves. In the highlighted and enlarged regions, the cosmic far infrared background was studied. Each small image shows the grainy emission due to myriad contributing galaxies. In part the emission is from epochs when the universe was only 2 billion years old, its present age is about 14 billion years. Launched in May 2009, Planck has carried out three complete scans of the Universe, yielding a catalog of 15,000 new celestial objects, including 30 galaxy clusters, scientist reported at a conference in Paris on January 11. Planck, deployed in orbit 1.5 million kilometres (937,000 miles) from Earth, is chiefly designed to pick up tiny variations in temperature in microwave energy that was released after the Big Bang that created the Universe.The probe into this so-called Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is still underway, and the outcome will probably be published in 2013. AFP PHOTO / ESA
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SPACE, SPACE |
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11 Ianuarie 2011 |
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