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The Earth appears on the left, followed by our solar system and then farther celestial objects and galaxies, with the outer reaches of the universe and radiation from the cosmic microwave background appearing on the right.
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Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
Cosmic Microwave Background The most important example of this line of thinking is the cosmic microwave background, or CMB.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
The cosmic microwave background offered a new window into the nature of reality, one into which astronomers have been peering intently ever since.
—Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
The second relies on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the Big Bang.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
But then came more detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
There are, however, other ways to look for dark stars, such as via their signatures in the cosmic microwave background—the faint glow of radiation left over from when our universe was hot and young.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
To see the effects of the gravity generated by dark matter throughout the universe, cosmologists turned to another elusive area of interest—cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
In the early ’90s, COBE measured the subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background that are thought to have seeded all later cosmological structures.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
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Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
Cosmic Microwave Background The most important example of this line of thinking is the cosmic microwave background, or CMB.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
The cosmic microwave background offered a new window into the nature of reality, one into which astronomers have been peering intently ever since.
—Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
The second relies on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the Big Bang.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
But then came more detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
There are, however, other ways to look for dark stars, such as via their signatures in the cosmic microwave background—the faint glow of radiation left over from when our universe was hot and young.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
To see the effects of the gravity generated by dark matter throughout the universe, cosmologists turned to another elusive area of interest—cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
In the early ’90s, COBE measured the subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background that are thought to have seeded all later cosmological structures.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
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1981, in the meaning defined above
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“Cosmic microwave background.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosmic%20microwave%20background. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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