{"id":498555,"date":"2018-07-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0766c9a6780bcf291b05960d8bb74ae6"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:00:00","slug":"the-legacy-of-planck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=498555","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of Planck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/the_legacy_of_planck\/17602630-2-eng-GB\/The_legacy_of_Planck_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOperating between 2009 and 2013, ESA\u2019s Planck mission scanned&nbsp;the sky at microwave wavelengths to observe the cosmic&nbsp;microwave background, or&nbsp;CMB, which is the most ancient light emitted in the history of our Universe.&nbsp;Data from Planck have&nbsp;revealed an \u2018almost perfect Universe\u2019: the standard model&nbsp;description of a cosmos containing ordinary matter, cold dark matter&nbsp;and dark&nbsp;energy, populated by structures that had been seeded during an early phase of&nbsp;inflationary expansion, is largely&nbsp;correct, but a few details to puzzle over&nbsp;remain. In other words: the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/the_legacy_of_planck\/17602630-2-eng-GB\/The_legacy_of_Planck_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOperating between 2009 and 2013, ESA&rsquo;s Planck mission scanned&nbsp;the sky at microwave wavelengths to observe the cosmic&nbsp;microwave background, or&nbsp;CMB, which is the most ancient light emitted in the history of our Universe.&nbsp;Data from Planck have&nbsp;revealed an &lsquo;almost perfect Universe&rsquo;: the standard model&nbsp;description of a cosmos containing ordinary matter, cold dark matter&nbsp;and dark&nbsp;energy, populated by structures that had been seeded during an early phase of&nbsp;inflationary expansion, is largely&nbsp;correct, but a few details to puzzle over&nbsp;remain. In other words: the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498556,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498555\/revisions\/498556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}