The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. It is a remnant that provides an...
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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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operated from 1989 to 1993. Its goals were to investigate the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB or CMBR) of the universe and provide measurements...
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region of the spectrum that is observed. One component is the cosmic microwave background. This component is redshifted photons that have freely streamed...
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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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CMB spectral distortions are tiny departures of the average cosmic microwave background (CMB) frequency spectrum from the predictions given by a perfect...
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relic neutrinos. The CνB is a relic of the Big Bang; while the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) dates from when the universe was 379,000 years...
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Dark matter (section Cosmic microwave background)
collisions, the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters, and cosmic microwave background anisotropies. In the standard lambda-CDM model of cosmology,...
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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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Chronology of the universe (redirect from Cosmic evolution)
decoupling"), and these photons can still be detected today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is the oldest direct observation we currently have...
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observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale structure. The overall uniformity...
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Dark energy (section Cosmic microwave background)
BOOMERanG and Maxima cosmic microwave background experiments observed the first acoustic peak in the cosmic microwave background, showing that the total...
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have released nine albums. Ryan has issued two solo albums, The Cosmic Microwave Background (30 May 2014) and Shiny's Democracy (23 July 2021). He also does...
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the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, which was predicted by the Big Bang theory. The steady-state model explained microwave background radiation...
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Physical cosmology (redirect from Cosmic physics)
cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by...
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CMB cold spot (redirect from Cosmic microwave background cold spot)
seen in microwaves that has been found to be unusually large and cold relative to the expected properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation...
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gases and producing radio waves. Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) from outer space is also a form of cosmic noise. CMBR is thought to be a relic...
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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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Inflation (cosmology) (redirect from Cosmic Inflation)
appears to be the same in all directions (isotropic), why the cosmic microwave background radiation is distributed evenly, why the universe is flat, and...
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Lambda-CDM model (section Cosmic expansion history)
reasonably good account of: the existence and structure of the cosmic microwave background the large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies the...
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of the same galaxy. A cosmic string would produce a similar duplicate image of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, which it was thought might...
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inflationary epoch is to directly measure its effect on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. The CMB is very weakly polarized (to a level...
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the Chilean Andes. It started operations in 1999 to study the cosmic microwave background radiation and ran until 2008. CBI conducted measurements at frequencies...
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to measurements of the elemental composition of meteorites. A cosmic microwave background was predicted in 1948 by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher, and by...
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abbreviated as the SZ effect) is the spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through inverse Compton scattering by high-energy electrons...
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Cosmic background may refer to: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) Cosmic neutrino background (CνB) Cosmic gravitational wave background (GWB)...
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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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receivers called radio telescopes. The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), for example, is a weak microwave noise filling empty space which is a...
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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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the coupling of matter in general (such as, for example, the cosmic microwave background, which fills the entire universe). All structures in this list...
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