<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ba8619b-4e1f-4164-aa66-9a9b7f53bdea/D2332759-A7DB-4448-B6AA-B7781CB28F9E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"><H1> Probe gets clearest glimpse yet of cosmic dawn </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"><P class="infuse">The Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail. Its first map of the entire sky is set to be complete in about six months.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"><P class="infuse">The European Space Agency spacecraft was <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17132-two-pioneering-telescopes-blast-into-space.html">launched</A> into space on 14 May. It is observing the glow of hot gas from just 380,000 years after the big bang – about 13.73 billion years ago – called the cosmic microwave background.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"><P class="infuse">The detailed properties of this background may contain hints of hidden <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11172-satellite-could-see-shadow-of-extra-dimensions.html">extra dimensions</A> or <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227061.200-how-to-map-the-multiverse.html">multiple universes</A>, as well as providing clues to what <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826624.300-hawking-close-to-explaining-universes-inflation.html">caused</A> a brief, early period of incredibly rapid cosmic expansion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17807-probe-gets-clearest-glimpse-yet-of-cosmic-dawn.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17807"><P class="infuse">Planck is expected to provide the most detailed all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background yet, improving on the best current map, obtained by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which launched in 2001.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D2332759-A7DB-4448-B6AA-B7781CB28F9E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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