The most detailed map yet of the afterglow of the Big Bang has been revealed by the European Space Agency (ESA). The cosmological chart has shed further light on when exactly the universe began, what it is made of and where it is going.
The 50-million pixel image, which gives a glimpse of the universe soon after the Big Bang, was created with data captured by the ESA’s Plank space telescope.
“This is a giant leap in the understanding of the origins of the universe,” the agency’s director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain told a press conference in Paris.
“What we are seeing is a picture of the microwave sky, a picture of the universe as it was 380,000 years after the Big Bang,” George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, told reporters.
Big Bang in HD: Astronomers map universe origin
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