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Cosmic Microwave Background: WMAP view
Description: An image showing the detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe created from nine years of WMAP data. The signal from the our Galaxy was subtracted using the multi-frequency data.
Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
Type: Image
Keywords: cosmic microwave background, image, wmap
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Cosmic Microwave Background: History of Discovery
Description: Image showing the history of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Top shows a simulated view that might have been seen by Penzias and Wilson in 1965, if they had been able to map the entire sky. The middle image shows the 4-year map from COBE data. The bottom image shows the 9-year map form WMAP. In each successive generation of observations, we see more detail in the background.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA
Type: Image
Keywords: cosmic microwave background, image, holmdel horn, cobe, wmap
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Cosmic Microwave Background: History of Discovery 2
Description: Image showing the history of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background from COBE to Planck. Each image shows a 10-degree square patch of the the all-sky maps made by each satellite. In each successive generation of observations, we see more detail in the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
Type: Image
Keywords: cosmic microwave background, image, cobe, wmap, planck
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Spacecraft: COBE
Description: Image of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft. COBE was launched in 1989 to map the Cosmic Microwave Background for the first time.
Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team
Type: Image
Keywords: cosmic microwave background, wmap, image
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Spacecraft: WMAP
Description: Image of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft. WMAP was launched in 2001 to map the Cosmic Microwave Background at a much higher sensitivity than COBE.
Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team
Type: Image
Keywords: cosmic microwave background, wmap, image
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Timeline of the Universe
Description: Diagram showing a representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.7 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of "inflation" produced a burst of exponential growth in the universe. For the next several billion years, the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity. More recently, the expansion has begun to speed up again as the repulsive effects of dark energy have come to dominate the expansion of the universe.
Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
Type: Image
Keywords: big bang, wmap, expanding universe, image
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