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The Planck telescope has revealed for the first time an entire sky image. That is: a picture of the entire universe!
![]() LINK...... The universe looks funky.
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wow thats awesome. kinda weird how it is in a perfect shape. kinda thought it would be all string looking and more like a blob.
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You have too realize that it's not a photo taken from a viewpoint from outside of the universe so it could be any shape you want it to be. Neat photo though.
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This is a picture of the entire universe? I have to think on that one but pretty cool.
The satellite was launched by the European Sapce Agency, this satellite was sent nearly a million miles into space.
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wow, it looks amazing! but itīs of course not the entire universe. But still very impressive and it makes me think how small we really are.
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Eh the words they are using are a bit misleading, I think a better title for this article would be 'entire galaxy picture'. The report says that the bold blue horizontal light at the center of the photo is the rim of our milkyway galaxy, being the galactic plane, and stretching above and below also in blue is galactic 'dust'. The 'entire universe' is supposed to be the heat signatures at top and bottom represented in red. Even though I know that the size here is relative to distance I'm having a hard time seeing this as the 'enitre universe'. Maybe I'm just not thinking about it in the right context
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I guess this is the entire universe excluding the telescope? Thinking this is just the milky way from outside of it?
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You need to think about this picture more abstractly.
If we are looking back in time, which we have to do if we hope to see the entire universe (eg: Hubble Deep Field - IE: We looked at an area of blank space and see galaxies as they were billions of years ago), we would see our galaxy as the densest cluster at the centre. If we could view our place in the Milky Way side on, it would look thus: ![]() If we could see it from 'above' thus: ![]() However, taking the first pic as an example and 'photographing' the entire universe through the galactic centre outwards.... It stands to reason that it will be the most dominant collection of images in the centre of the picture. What I would kill for is a copy of the 'Entire Universe' image in its full glorious resolution. A big pat on the back for the first member to find it I'm sure!
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And considering GusDuBus' post, I think he's sort of correct. The focus was The Milky Way and the surround was out of focus..... kind of like foucussing on the bride at a wedding, the crowd are just fuzzy detail.....
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Here is a link which has detailed information regarding the image above. Check out the 'images and video' section on the right side for some really cool Hi-Res images that have tags which give us some info as to what we are actually looking at. Website HERE |
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