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COBE looks back to the Big BangAn overview is presented of NASA-Goddard's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), the first NASA satellite designed to observe the primeval explosion of the universe. The spacecraft carries three extremely sensitive IR and microwave instruments designed to measure the faint residual radiation from the Big Bang and to search for the formation of the first galaxies. COBE's far IR absolute spectrophotometer has shown that the Big Bang radiation has a blackbody spectrum, proving that there was no large energy release after the explosion.
Document ID
19930037631
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mather, John C.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Aerospace America
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0740-722X
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Accession Number
93A21628
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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