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The glow of that hot gas is now visible everywhere in the sky as the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Sep. 2024
For years astronomers have argued over a gulf between the expansion rate as measured from galaxies in the local universe and as calculated from studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Aug. 2024
That signal will then be subtracted, which researchers hope will leave just the cosmic microwave background.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
One way to calculate the constitution of the universe is by studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the phenomenon discovered in 1964 that transformed cosmology into a science.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Sep. 2024
For years astronomers have argued over a gulf between the expansion rate as measured from galaxies in the local universe and as calculated from studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Aug. 2024
That signal will then be subtracted, which researchers hope will leave just the cosmic microwave background.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
One way to calculate the constitution of the universe is by studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the phenomenon discovered in 1964 that transformed cosmology into a science.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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