Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
COBE All-Sky Map
Explanation:
This historic [ http://lambda.gsfc.…] all-sky map is based on the first two years of data from NASA's COsmic Background Explorer [ http://lambda.gsfc.…] (COBE) satellite, launched in November of 1989. The map shows minute temperature variations (red is hotter) imprinted on the Cosmic Microwave Background [ http://map.gsfc.nas…] (CMB) radiation by structures in the early Universe [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. These detailed measurements of the CMB and other COBE [ http://lambda.gsfc.…] results ushered in an age of precision [ http://lambda.gsfc.…parameters.cfm ] cosmology, and exactly confirmed the predictions of the Big Bang theory [ http://www.astro.uc…]. Playing leading roles in the COBE project, for their resulting discoveries John C. Mather [ http://adsabs.harva…bib_query?1994ApJ... 420..439M ] (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center), and George F. Smoot [ http://adsabs.harva…nph-bib_query?1994Ap J...437....1S ] (UC Berkeley) were selected to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics [ http://nobelprize.o…2006/ ].
Credit and Copyright:
COBE Project [ http://lambda.gsfc.…], DMR [ http://lambda.gsfc.…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov…]
facet_when:
1989
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
COBE
facet_what:
Explorer
facet_when_year:
1989
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap061007

COBE All-Sky Map
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