The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE /ˈkoʊbi/ KOH-bee), also referred to as Explorer 66, was a NASA satellite dedicated to cosmology, which operated from...
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Cosmic background radiation is electromagnetic radiation that fills all space. The origin of this radiation depends on the region of the spectrum that...
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The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard...
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The cosmic neutrino background (CNB or CνB) is the universe's background particle radiation composed of neutrinos. They are sometimes known as relic neutrinos...
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This list is a compilation of experiments measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation anisotropies and polarization since the first detection...
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the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"...
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The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation constitutes a major development in modern physical cosmology. In 1964, US physicist Arno Allan...
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Expansion of the universe (redirect from Cosmic expansion)
73±7 km⋅s−1⋅Mpc−1. In 2003, David Spergel's analysis of the cosmic microwave background during the first year observations of the Wilkinson Microwave...
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Cosmic infrared background is infrared radiation caused by stellar dust. Recognizing the cosmological importance of the darkness of the night sky (Olbers'...
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like hypothetical primordial inflation and cosmic strings. Several potential sources for the background are hypothesized across various frequency bands...
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Another effect remarked upon since the first cosmic microwave background satellite, the Cosmic Background Explorer is that the amplitude of the quadrupole...
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cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot. This work helped cement the...
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Big Bounce (redirect from Cosmic bounces)
awareness of the Big Bang model with of the discovery of the cosmic microwave background by Penzias and Wilson in 1965. The idea of the existence of a...
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flat, open and closed universes. Observations, including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and Planck...
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Void (astronomy) (redirect from Cosmic nothingness)
Voids appear to correlate with the observed temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) because of the Sachs–Wolfe effect. Colder regions correlate...
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the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect for the first time. In 1987 the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite observed the CMB and gave more accurate data...
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Absolute Spectrophotometer), an astronomical instrument aboard Cosmic Background Explorer Feras, a given name This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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instrument. The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Science Team also precisely measured the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Prior...
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observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale structure. The uniformity of...
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Assembly of the Cosmic Background Explorer, Manager for the Superfluid Helium On Orbit Transfer Shuttle Experiment, Manager for the Small Explorer Project, Manager...
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worked on space missions including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy...
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of cosmological natural selection George F. Smoot (1945–) used Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite to measure the temperature and anisotropy of the early...
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Stephen Hawking (redirect from George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt)
John Preskill of Caltech. Hawking had bet that Penrose's proposal of a "cosmic censorship conjecture" – that there could be no "naked singularities" unclothed...
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the universe when it was young. The most distant light of all, cosmic microwave background radiation, is isotropic to at least one part in a thousand. Bondi...
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Observable universe (redirect from Cosmic Web)
calculations, the current comoving distance to particles from which the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) was emitted, which represents the radius of...
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Anthropic principle (section Cosmic inflation)
which had recently been falsified by the 1965 discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery was unequivocal evidence that the universe...
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constitute what is observed today as cosmic microwave background radiation (in that sense, the cosmic background radiation is infrared and some red black-body...
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R.; Kamionkowski, Marc; Weinberg, Nevin N. (2003). "Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday". Physical Review Letters. 91 (7): 071301. arXiv:astro-ph/0302506...
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Cosmological constant (redirect from Cosmic constant)
Waldram, E.M.; et al. (1999). "Detection of cosmic microwave background structure in a second field with the Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope". Monthly Notices...
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Accelerating expansion of the universe (redirect from Cosmic acceleration)
the Lambda-CDM model. In the decades since the detection of cosmic microwave background (CMB) in 1965, the Big Bang model has become the most accepted...
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