Several essays deal with the early Universe, blending empirical evidence (such as
the COBE microwave background data and the large - scale structure work of Margaret Geller) with the inflation theories of Alan Guth and others.
Not exact matches
COBE's discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic
microwave background and the subsequent confirmation by WMAP that these are in excellent agreement with the predictions of inflation.
The residual amount of anisotropy in the Universe allowed by his calculations is, he claims, just enough to explain the temperature irregularities in the cosmic
background microwave radiation found by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
background microwave radiation found by NASA's Cosmic
Background Explorer (COBE)
Background Explorer (
COBE) satellite.
NASA launches
COBE, a satellite to study the cosmic
microwave background.
The first such map was created in 1992, based on data gathered by the Differential
Microwave Radiometer (DMR), an instrument on the Cosmic
Background Explorer (
COBE) satellite, which NASA launched in 1989.