The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was discovered serendipitously in the mid-1960s by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, providing crucial observational evidence for the Big Bang theory through the ...
New research by astronomers suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the universe may be wrong. Researchers looked at observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP ...
New research by astronomers at Durham University in the United Kingdom suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the universe may be wrong. Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks looked at ...
In this section we will learn about the CMB data from WMAP (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Planck (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck). The goals ...
The universe is almost perfect, 80 million years older than we thought, and maybe a little bit evil. That’s the conclusion of a four-year mission conducted by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...
It’s easy to forget that until recently cosmology was largely a theoretical science. Thanks in particular to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which was launched by NASA in 2001 to ...
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