Scientists unveiled the first detailed pictures of the infant universe April 26, showing it to be tiny, hot and cosmically "flat." This image of approximately 1800 square degrees of the southern sky was taken using the BOOMERANG telescope over a 10 day period from December 1998 - January, 1999. The image shows the distant Universe as it makes its transition from a glowing plasma to a perfectly transparent gas, approximately 14 billion years ago, a mere 300,000 years after the Big Bang.