"This is like a baby picture of the Universe" - Andrew Jaffe, of Cosmology and Astrophysics
Latest pictures from Planck satellite have mapped the whole Universe as it was just after the Big Bang Pictures taken by Europe's Planck satellite are giving scientists a view of the Universe that's more than 50 million years older than anything they have previously seen. These highly detailed images are composed from just over 15 months' worth of data about light left over from the Big Bang. The new results have allowed scientists to view what the beginning of the Universe looked like 13.82 billion years ago and to estimate what conditions might have been like at that time. Scientists from Imperial College London and colleagues from across Europe took part in the project to design and operate Planck, which launched from French Guiana in 2009. The satellite measures a form of light called the Cosmic Microwave Background, which was emitted at the Big Bang at the beginning of the Universe. Andrew Jaffe, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics in Imperial's Department of Physics, spoke to Channel 4 News yesterday. He said: "This is like a baby picture of the Universe.
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