European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope Sends Spectacular Image Of Universe
July 6th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
July 6, (THAINDIAN NEWS) European Space Agency’s Planck telescope that was sent to space with a mission to survey the “cosmic microwave background” in the cosmos has been able to gather the database within just six months of its stay in space. It has recently sent an all-sky image of the Universe. The spectacular image of the Universe as captured and assemble by the European Space Agency’s Planck’s Telescope has left the scientists and the researchers spell bound and amazed. The data-set collected by the telescope will reportedly help scientists to find out the mystery behind the look of the Universe and how it came to look the way it looks at present.
The Planck’s telescope picture gives us a panoramic view of the sky. The telescope picture captures the massive clouds of interstellar gas and dust. The extremely light sensitive instrument captures the long wavelengths that the general instrument or human eyes fail to perceive. As per reports, the observatory could even survey ancient light that was scattered from the Big Bang.
The European Space Agency reportedly spent 600 million euros in the making of the observatory and it seems that the observatory is ultimately living up to the expectation of the researchers. Dr. Jan Tauber a scientist of the European Space Agency’s Planck project said to a media source that “It’s a spectacular picture; it’s a thing of beauty”. At the middle of the image of the Universe a bright streak of light can be viewed which is our own galaxy. The light visible is not that of the stars but of the radiation released by the dust and the gas clouds.
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