The Planck space mission has today (March 21) released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe. The universe according to Planck is expanding a bit more slowly ...

ACT had a much higher resolution than the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope ... increasingly detailed and far-reaching maps of the universe. "That means that we can say things ...

Our latest and best ever map of the early universe is five times more detailed ... yet greater detail by the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft from 2009 to 2013. Each mission provided ...

Effectively, the universe’s baby picture is a CMB map. For decades, satellite missions like COBE, WMAP, and Planck have mapped this ancient radiation. But ground-based experiments like the ACT ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map we've ever seen of the cosmic microwave background – the faint light that ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Credit: ACT Collaboration; ESA/Planck Collaboration Astronomers have released the clearest images yet of the infant universe — and they confirm that the leading theory of the universe's ...

A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the ... detect in the universe. Until now, the radiation has mainly been measured by the ESA Planck space telescope.

Though Planck's idea was not immediately believed by most physicists, it is now accepted as one of the fundamental constants in the universe. In fact, Planck himself wasn't sure if it was more ...