普朗克卫星

欧洲普朗克卫星发布了首张全宇宙微波地图。

The Planck satellite released its first microwave radiation map of the entire sky .

宇宙微波背景辐射是宇宙大爆炸遗留下来辐射，普朗克卫星正在对构成宇宙微波背景辐射的光子进行研究。

Planck is studying the photons that make up the cosmic microwave background ( CMB ), the radiation left over from the big bang .

普朗克卫星绘制了宇宙微波背景辐射图，这是大爆炸留下的微弱余辉，让宇宙学家回顾了宇宙的黎明时期。

The Planck satellite maps the cosmic microwave background , the faint afterglow of the big bang . And that lets cosmologists look back to the very dawn of the universe .

我们的宇宙早已有137亿年的历史了，但欧洲太空总署发射的普朗克卫星收集的数据证明宇宙的实际年龄更长。

Our universe has long passed for a 13.7-billion-year-old , but it turns out it 's really a bit more elderly . So says new data from the European Planck satellite .