Artist's impression of COBE,NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Launched on 18 November,1989,COBE is a fundamental space astronomy mission designed to investigate the cosmic background radiation & answer questions about the expansion & nature of the Universe as a whole. It is equipped with infrared & microwave sensors which will map the whole sky at 100 different wavelengths. In 1990,COBE returned the first spectrum of the cosmic background radiation,the "heat signal" of the Big Bang,& showed it to be a perfect "black body" curve,thus confirming at a stroke the theory of the Big Bang | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Baum, Julian |
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