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The European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> has released the most precise map of the ancient universe ever made. The Planck space telescope constructed this 50 million pixels all-sky image of cosmic background radiation (CMB) by observing microwave radiation across the sky over 15 months from just the afterglow of the Big Bang. As a result, the data has suggested that the universe is 80 million years older than the previous guess, now estimated at 13.81 billion years old. Tags: Eurpean Space Agency, Planck, Big Bang Publication: HuffingtonPost.co.uk Publication Date: 03\/21\/2013 Cosmic microwave background (CMB) seen by Planck, with asymmetry and \u2018cold spot\u2019 highlighted Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most precise map of the ancient universe ever made. The Planck space telescope constructed this 50 million pixels all-sky image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAccording to the map, the early universe appears to be asymmetrical, with an unexplained \u2018cold spot\u2019 over much of the sky. Also discovered is that the universe is made up of slightly more ordinary matter less dark energy than previously thought.
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\nThese large scale anomalies in data are not explained by standard universal models, suggesting that there is a preferred direction in the expansion of the universe called \u2018Axis of Evil,\u2019 and inspiring the search for a credible explanation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\")
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