NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

New results, just released from NASA's WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), detecting microwaves coming from the cooling fireball of the Big Bang.

clipped from wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov WMAP Highlights Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is a NASA Explorer mission. It has produced a wealth of precise and accurate cosmological information. WMAP produced the first full-sky map of the microwave sky with a resolution of under a degree, about the angular size of the moon. clipped from wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov WMAP mission was proposed to NASA in 1995, launced in 2001, and is still collecting data. clipped from wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov clipped from wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov Concept Animation; Wavelengths from the Sky Starting with an overview of the Milky Way, We move down to see the view from our location. From the Earth, we can view the sky and unwrap it into an oval for easy viewing. Finally we can view the light at different wavelenghts from the visible down to the microwave. clipped from wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov Concept Animations Universe Evolution Evolving the Universe, from the Cosmic Microwave Background to now. + See More Journey to the Big Bang Take a journey from the tiny WMAP spacecraft back to the beginnings of the universe. + See More

via: Bad Astronomy Blog » The Universe is 13.73 +/- .12 billion years old!
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