A group of astronomers in the United Kingdom proposes that the errors experts discovered to exist in the “gold standard” of the Universe may in fact be a lot larger than previously calculated. This standard is set by results obtained with the WMAP satellite.The spacecraft spent years analyzing the Cosmic ... |
14 January 2011
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Officials at NASA announce that their Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has been conducting surveys of the cosmic microwave background for over nine years, has finally ended its primary science mission.The spacecraft conducts observations of the CMB, which is the oldest light in the Universe. This ra... |
6 October 2010
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What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation left behind by the light created when th... |
7 June 2008
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How does the ESA prepare for the launch of a new probe? Well, apparently, by taking several pictures of its partner's spacecraft. ESO's La Silla 2.2 meter telescope was recently used by three researchers to photograph NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, orbiting Earth from a distance of 1.5 mi... |
9 May 2008
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After two additional years of measurements with NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which narrowed the uncertainty by a few tens of millions of years, last week astronomers finally confirmed the precise age of the universe: 13.73 billion years, give or take 120 million years. "Everything is tightening ... |
27 March 2008
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Data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe or WMPA is not flawed, but rather contaminated with radio radiation coming from our galaxy. The WMPA is a satellite, launched in 2001 by NASA, to probe the Cosmic Microwave Background or CMB, and find minute differences of temperature to test certain theories... |
14 November 2007
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