Planck probe's cosmic 'baby picture' revises universe's vital statistics[ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:08:57 GMT ]The European-led team behind the Planck cosmology probe on Thursday released the mission's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background — a post-big-bang "baby picture" that suggests our universe is slightly older than scientists thought.The map traces subtle fluctuations in temperature that were imprinted on the deep sky when the cosmos was just 370,000 years old. Scientists say the impri...