9/18/2009

Planck's first image

Planck is a mission of ESA in which a spacecraft take pictures of the universe.
The spacecraft gives a preview of the all-sky images.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/firstlight20090917.html

The horizontal light line is the milky way. Red and blue color areas show the strength of the light. That is, the light from red areas is stronger than that from blue areas.

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