Planck sees tapestry of cold dust

Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are
revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analyzing these structures
could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star
formation. Planck is principally designed to study the biggest mysteries of
cosmology. How did the Universe form? How did the galaxies form? This new image
extends the range of its investigations into the cold dust structures of our own
Galaxy.