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Tag Archives: Cosmic Background Explorer

Planck looks back at the first billion, billion, billionth of a second

21 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by sedeer in Astronomy

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Big Bang, CMB, Cosmic Background Explorer, Cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmology, ESA, European Space Agency, physics, Planck, Popular science, science, universe, WMAP

Artist's impression of the Planck spacecraft (Photo credit: Wikipedia)This morning, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the results from the Planck mission, a satellite designed to peer back at the earliest fraction of a second of the universe. It’s not our first glimpse of those early moments, but it’s the best look we’ve had to date. While the data from the Planck mission doesn’t overturn our understanding of the universe, it’s a treasure trove for theoretical physicists and brings some exciting questions to the fore.

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