Planck unveils the Universe--now and then

“An extraordinary treasure chest of new data for astronomers, from the closest portions of the Milky Way to the furthest reaches of space and time,” says the European Space Agency of the Planck mission's first all-sky image. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Berkeley Lab hosts the U.S. Planck team’s data analysis, and the Lab's nobel laureate, George Smoot, co-authored the proposal that led to Planck and, with Martin White of Physics, is a Planck scientist.