cmb Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/cmb/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:11:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png cmb Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/cmb/ 32 32 166732936 The Cosmic Microwave Background https://www.colinstuart.net/cosmic-microwave-background/ https://www.colinstuart.net/cosmic-microwave-background/#respond Wed, 03 May 2017 10:18:08 +0000 https://colinstuart.net/?p=4871 The theory that our universe began with a ‘big bang’ is one of the most famous ideas in all of science. It has seeped into popular culture, too, with one of the most famous television shows in the world named after it. Yet, despite its fame, it was only confirmed beyond reasonable doubt in the […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/cosmic-microwave-background/feed/ 0 4871 Latest Planck data back up big bang https://www.colinstuart.net/latest-planck-data-back-up-big-bang/ https://www.colinstuart.net/latest-planck-data-back-up-big-bang/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:00:14 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1737 The team behind the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite has released their latest set of data stemming from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) between 2009 and 2013. What they’ve found strongly supports the prevailing view of how our universe began: the big bang. The CMB is the faint afterglow of that origin – […]

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