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cosmic microwave background

[′käz·mik ′mī·krō‚wāv ′bak‚grau̇nd]
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Holzapfel, "Detection of polarization in the cosmic microwave background using DASI," Nature, vol.
The discovery of anomalous microwave emission
And measurements from a previous cosmic microwave background experiment, WMAP, are also closer to the supernova measurements.
Debate persists on cosmic expansion: different methods don't agree on value of Hubble constant
"Because the ratio of normal matter to dark matter is now very well known, for example from measuring the cosmic microwave background, we have a pretty good idea of how much baryonic matter should be in the halo.
Scientists Detect Diffuse Hydrogen Gas In Milky Way's Halo
Radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson weren't looking for the cosmic microwave background when they stumbled upon it in 1964.
On the alert for apparitions
Among his topics are observational overview, the geometry of the universe, simple cosmological models, the density of the universe and dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and the initial singularity.
An Introduction to Modern Cosmology, 3rd Edition
When astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background, they "thought they had found pigeon poop instead of evidence for the Big Bang, and spent weeks cleaning their antenna," he wrote.
Beware the microwave
Since 2009, the Planck telescope has charted the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the light from the Universe a mere 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
Magnetic Fingerprint of Galaxy Revealed
The cosmic microwave background radiation preserves a record of the early acoustic density peaks; these were the seeds of the subsequent BAO imprint on the distribution of matter.
Breakthrough in measuring universe's rate of expansion could help explain dark energy
Thematic chapters cover topics such as the large-scale structure of the universe, the discovery and importance of cosmic microwave background radiation, and the forces and particles involved in the evolution of the universe.
Cosmology and the evolution of the universe
In the subsequent section, we also discuss plausible extension of this unified statistics to include anisotropic effect by using quaternion oscillator, which may be observed in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
A note on unified statistics including Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, and Tsallis statistics, and plausible extension to anisotropic effect
The (http://www.ibtimes.com/delensing-cosmic-microwave-background-researchers-detail-new-method-remove-effects-2427334) Cosmic Microwave Background - the radiation created shortly after the Big Bang - is one of the few windows that allow us to see what the cosmos we live in is actually like.
Scientists Measure Effect Of High-Energy Electrons On CMB

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