Detail View: : COBE All-Sky Map
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Collection:
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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Title:
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COBE All-Sky Map
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Explanation:
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This historic [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/dmr_image.cfm ] all-sky map is based on the first two years of data from NASA's COsmic Background Explorer [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/ ] (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.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html ] (CMB) radiation by structures in the early Universe [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060323.html ]. These detailed measurements of the CMB and other COBE [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/firas_image.cfm ] results ushered in an age of precision [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/current/ parameters.cfm ] cosmology, and exactly confirmed the predictions of the Big Bang theory [ http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm ]. Playing leading roles in the COBE project, for their resulting discoveries John C. Mather [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ bib_query?1994ApJ...420..439M ] (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center), and George F. Smoot [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ nph-bib_query?1994ApJ...437....1S ] (UC Berkeley) were selected to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics [ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/ 2006/ ].
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Credit and Copyright:
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COBE Project [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/ ], DMR [ http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/dmr_overview.cfm ], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html ]
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facet_when:
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1989
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facet_where:
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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facet_what:
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COBE
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facet_what:
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Explorer
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facet_when_year:
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1989
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original url:
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061007.html
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UID:
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SPD-APOD-ap061007
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Image ID:
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106647
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Resolution Size:
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4
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Format:
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JPEG
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Media Type:
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Image
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File Name:
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cmb_cobe2yr_big.jpg
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Width:
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1024
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Height:
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512
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