cosmic microwave background

cosmic microwave background

Podcast Episode 104 I The Picture of the Cosmic Microwave Background

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Podcast Episode 104 is about The Picture of the Cosmic Microwave Background captured first by the WMAP and then Planck telescope.

Cosmic Microwave Background A picture of the universe

The Story of Our Universe in a Picture

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The Story of Our Universe in a Picture of the cosmic microwave background from Planck telescope from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. that shows what the early Universe looked like.

Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create this new map of the dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less or none. The typical features are hundreds of millions of light years across. The whitish band shows where contaminating light from dust in our Milky Way galaxy, measured by the Planck satellite, obscures a deeper view. The new map uses light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) essentially as a backlight to silhouette all the matter between us and the Big Bang.

New Dark Matter Map Validates Einstein General Theory of Relativity

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Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create a new map of dark matter and this map validates Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The orange regions show where there is more ma...