The universe is older and weirder than we thought, according to a scientific effort unprecedented | RedGage

The universe is older and weirder than we thought, according to a scientific effort unprecedented | RedGage:

Planck mission carried out by the European Space Agency presented its first conclusions today.These include the fact that the universe is something older than previously thought and also weird.

Planck was launched in 2009 to map the microwave background of the universe, which is a glow from early universe emanating from all directions of space but are invisible to the human eye.

The new map is the most accurate picture of the universe as it looked at first. Different colors represent temperature differences of hot gas that filled the universe at the beginning, a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, and provide clues about the events that took place when the universe was a fraction of a second old.

"We can see the seeds of which emerged the Universe," said Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency.

Here are the main discoveries that scientists have made through this mapping:

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