A full -
sky map produced by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) showing cosmic background radiation, a very uniform glow of microwaves emitted by the infant universe more than 13 billion years ago.
Not exact matches
Lemonick provides a behind - the - scenes look at an eight - year quest by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team to
produce the first all -
sky map of the early universe.
The star was discovered using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, which is searching for ancient stars as it conducts a five - year project to
produce the first digital
map the southern
sky.
Planck recently
produced the best - ever full -
sky map of this light, revealing new details about of our cosmos» age, contents and origins.
48 Nearby Universe
Mapped Astrophysicists have
produced the most detailed full -
sky map of the nearby universe...
After two decades of research on three continents, astrophysicists have
produced the largest and most detailed full -
sky map of the nearby universe.
The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the
sky to
produce high resolution
maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the leading theoretical model of the universe, known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model.
They and their students took thousands of spectra of galaxies along thin pie - shaped slices of the
sky over 15 years to
produce the
map with 2 slices extending out about 400 million light years shown below.