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Incredible New Microwave Map of the Entire Sky
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Astronomers will use the data to study the early universe and how stars and galaxies form.
“This single image captures both our own cosmic backyard — the Milky Way galaxy that we live in — but also the subtle imprint of the Big Bang from which the whole Universe emerged,” David Parker of the UK Space Agency said in a press release July 5.
The Milky Way galaxy dominates the center of the image, the blue light is the dust in the galaxy and the red is hot gas. The yellow-spotted areas are the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, which the oldest light in the universe. It was emitted 400,000 years after the Big Bang and reveals information about how galaxies first began to form.
The mottled look of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is the result of differences in temperature and density. The light from the Milky Way will be digitally removed from the image so that astronomers can study the most precise picture yet of the entire CMB. Planck records microwave radiation in nine different frequency bands, which will help scientists separate the light from the galaxy and the light from the early universe.
“Just looking at the pictures you can tell we’re seeing new things about the structure of our galaxy,” David Clements of Imperial College London said in a press release. “Once we’ve done that, and stripped away these foregrounds, then it’s on to the Cosmic Microwave Background and the glow of the Big Bang itself!”
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Euro Falls Again As Fear Rules
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Increasingly difficult borrowing conditions in the euro zone, tighter U.S. banking regulation and increase tensions on the Korean peninsula has kept investors cut risk in their portfolio.
Wall Street met late Tuesday to end flat, briefly pushing up U.S. stock market futures. Deflated but persistent selling of the euro and Australian dollar against the yen in early Asian trading on hopes a permanent shift in mood and cut gains in equities.
"Doubt and care dominate the market. There is no doubt southern European countries are the only ones with debt problems," said Suh Dong-pil, a market analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities in Seoul.
"Increased tensions with North Korea is also negative."
The euro fell 0.7 percent on the day at $ 1.2285, and climbed down on a four-year low around $ 1.2140 hit 14 in May The euro is ready for its biggest monthly decline since January 2009.
Against the yen, the euro was down 1.1 percent to 110.60 yen, with the aid of 108.85 yen a 8-1/2-year low hit on Tuesday.
The Australian dollar has fallen 0.9 percent to $ 8210 on track for the biggest monthly decline since October 2008.
Stress
Stress in funding markets has brought back painful recollections about fallout from Lehman Brothers fiasco in 2008.
The combination of a rush of euros in U.S. dollar and fears that last weekend's takeover by a Spanish savings bank of the central bank may be a sign of bigger problems have pushed up short-term U.S. dollar funding costs.
Three-month U.S. dollar Libor settled Tuesday at 0.5362, its highest since July 2009, has more than doubled in the last three months.
A Reuters poll of money market traders showed was expected to rise to 0.70 per cent over the next month.
Japan's Nikkei share average rose 0.4 percent after plumbing services for a six-month low Tuesday, but was ultimately dependent on the direction of the euro.
"We tend to see short covering and negotiate-hunting today, as how far the Nikkei fell yesterday," said Toshiyuki Kanayama, market analyst at Monex Inc. in Tokyo.
But there is still much more long-term uncertainty and if the euro becomes unstable as it was yesterday, things can change. "
MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.7 percent, helped by a jump in resource-related shares. Since its peak in the last bull market rally in April 1915, Asian shares have fallen 18 percent, almost 20 percent mark generally define a bear market.
The index was trading at 11.8 times earnings expected over the next 12 months, the lowest since March 2009, Thomson said I / B / E / S data showed.
Valuation has also fallen in Japanese that they were at the beginning of the 2009 rally, with investors U.S. and European equities focus on overall financial and economic risks that may be attractive prices will not be enough to support the market in the short term.
Ten-year U.S. Treasury note futures were mostly flat, cutting earlier losses as stocks tracked gains. The cash market rose with the benchmark 10-year yield at 3.1560 percent compared with Tuesday's intraday low of 3.0642 percent.
U.S. crude for July delivery gathered 0.8 percent to $ 69.29 per barrel after a report from a larger than expected drop in gasoline inventories.
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