We released 25 new papers today.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.sciops.esa.int\/index.php?project=PLANCK&page=Planck_Published_Papers<\/a><\/p>\n Jan. 11, 2011<\/p>\n Trent Perrotto Whitney Clavin PLANCK MISSION PEELS BACK LAYERS OF THE UNIVERSE<\/p>\n WASHINGTON — The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday “NASA is pleased to support this important mission, and we have Planck launched in May 2009 on a mission to detect light from just a “The data we’re releasing now are from what lies between us and the Planck observes the sky at nine wavelengths of light, ranging from The result is a windfall of data on known and never-before-seen cosmic They also are some of the coldest places in the universe. Planck’s new The new catalogue also contains some of the most massive clusters of Galaxies in our universe are bound together into these larger “Because Planck is observing the whole sky, it is giving us a Planck’s new catalogue also includes unique data on the pools of hot For more information about Planck, visit:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planck<\/a> We released 25 new papers today. http:\/\/www.sciops.esa.int\/index.php?project=PLANCK&page=Planck_Published_Papers Jan. 11, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov\u00a0\ufffd RELEASE: 11-011 PLANCK MISSION PEELS BACK LAYERS OF THE UNIVERSE WASHINGTON — The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHeadquarters, Washington
\n202-358-5241
\ntrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
\n818-354-4673
\nwhitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov<\/a>\u00a0\ufffd
\nRELEASE: 11-011<\/p>\n
\nfrom initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue includes thousands
\nof never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming and some
\nof the most massive clusters of galaxies ever observed. Planck is a
\nEuropean Space Agency (ESA) mission with significant contributions
\nfrom NASA.<\/p>\n
\neagerly awaited Planck’s first discoveries,” said Jon Morse, NASA’s
\nAstrophysics Division director at the agency’s headquarters in
\nWashington. “We look forward to continued collaboration with ESA and
\nmore outstanding science to come.”<\/p>\n
\nfew hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, an explosive event at
\nthe dawn of the universe approximately 13.7 billion years ago. The
\nspacecraft’s state-of-the-art detectors ultimately will survey the
\nwhole sky at least four times, measuring the cosmic microwave
\nbackground, or radiation left over from the Big Bang. The data will
\nhelp scientists decipher clues about the evolution, fate and fabric
\nof our universe. While these cosmology results won’t be ready for
\nanother two years or so, early observations of specific objects in
\nour Milky Way galaxy, as well as more distant galaxies, are being
\nreleased.<\/p>\n
\ncosmic microwave background,” said Charles Lawrence, the U.S. project
\nscientist for Planck at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
\nCalif. We ultimately will subtract these data out to get at our
\ncosmic microwave background signal. But by themselves, these early
\nobservations offer up new information about objects in our universe
\n— both close and far away, and everything in between,” Lawrence
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\ninfrared to radio waves. Its technology has greatly improved
\nsensitivity and resolution over its predecessor missions, NASA’s
\nCosmic Background Explorer and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.<\/p>\n
\nobjects. Planck has catalogued approximately 10,000 star-forming
\n“cold cores,” thousands of which are newly discovered. The cores are
\ndark and dusty nurseries where baby stars are just beginning to take
\nshape.<\/p>\n
\ncatalogue includes some of the coldest cores ever seen, with
\ntemperatures as low as seven degrees above absolute zero, or minus
\n447 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to see the coldest gas and dust in
\nthe Milky Way, Planck’s detectors were chilled to only 0.1 kelvins.<\/p>\n
\ngalaxies known, including a handful of newfound ones. The most
\nmassive of these holds the equivalent of a million billion suns worth
\nof mass, making it one of the most massive galaxy clusters known.<\/p>\n
\nclusters, forming a lumpy network across the cosmos. Scientists study
\nthe clusters to learn more about the evolution of galaxies and dark
\nmatter and dark energy — the exotic substances that constitute the
\nmajority of our universe.<\/p>\n
\ncomprehensive look at how all the smaller structures of the universe
\nare connected to the whole,” said Jim Bartlett, a U.S. Planck team
\nmember at JPL and the Astroparticule et Cosmologie-Universite Paris
\nDiderot in France.<\/p>\n
\ngas that permeate roughly 14,000 smaller clusters of galaxies; the
\nbest data yet on the cosmic infrared background, which is made up of
\nlight from stars evolving in the early universe; and new observations
\nof extremely energetic galaxies spewing radio jets. The catalogue
\ncovers about one-and-one-half sky scans.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Planck\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"