This text examines scientific knowledge of the cosmic background radiation, the afterglow of the Big Bang in which the universe was born 15 billion years ago. It relates the search for the origins of the universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite.
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This text examines scientific knowledge of the cosmic background radiation, the afterglow of the Big Bang in which the universe was born 15 billion years ago. It relates the search for the origins of the universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite.
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