But in March, the European Space Agency announced that its orbiting Planck telescope had taken the temperature of 50 million tiny patches of sky, creating the highest - resolution baby picture of the whole universe ever taken, and allowing astronomers to better understand the first moments after the Big Bang. (discovermagazine.com)
Outside, the slow but constant leakage of water from the units provides enough moisture to create unplanned habitats for tiny patches of green. (anti-utopias.com)