Planck Mission Releases Images of Galactic Dust

davecl writes "The Planck satellite has released its first new science images, showing the large scale filamentary structure of cold dust in our own galaxy. This release coincides with the completion of its first survey of the entire sky a couple of weeks ago. There's lots more work to be done, and more observations to be made, before results are ready on the Big Bang, but these images demonstrate Planck's performance and capability. More information is available on the Planck mission blog (which I maintain)."

That's no dust cloud

[Rik Sweeney]

Best call the Fantastic Four, it sounds like we're about to receive a visit from the Silver Surfer [wikipedia.org]

Re:A nice picture

[Lumpy]

Wow! It looks just like the hosted by tripod logo!

Constant Value For Dust

[MrTripps]

Since dust is so difficult to define, maybe they should set a standard for what is and is not dust. Since it came up from this mission they could call it the Plank constant. That isn't used for anything else is it?

Re:Huge waste of money

[Anonymous Coward]

...not life forms.

Specifically, gametes.

Yeah, no. No one is looking for that.

Re:High-Res?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ooock Imm don, shtooned like heeeeell! And I see shchmurfs jumpinn outta my windowss, cuz i took the acid too, ya now? But, can't find the shtars you talkin' about. Schmurf says its 3 pmm, i flucked something up?

Re:High-Res?

[Chris Burke]

I did find a nice description of the HFI "imager" device... Its resolution is about 5 arc minutes depending on frequency, etc.

Not bad for the smallest telescope possible!

Re:Where is Mega Maid?

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

They do -- that's prolly why she stopped returning calls.