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   COBE

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   • 1. a NASA satellite launched in 1989 to map the background microwave radiation from space in a search for evidence of the Big Bang.

   Word Origin abbreviation of Cosmic Background Explorer.

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   What does COBE stand for?

   • Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), U.S. satellite placed in Earth orbit in 1989 to map the “smoothness” of the cosmic background radiation field and, by extension, to confirm the validity of the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1964 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, working together

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   What is the purpose of COBE?

   • To measure this ancient radiation across the sky, COBEwas designed to filter out objects in the foreground that might be obscuring a fainter glow behind. Everlasting light: remnant glow of ancient stars offers glimpse of universe's past

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   How did COBE get its name?

   • COBE was founded in 1964 by Robert Collins and Randall Bellows, both of whom had worked at a major hospital supplier near San Francisco called Pharmaseal. COBE's name was derived from the first two letters of the founders' last names.

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   What happened to COBE?

   • After four years of observations, the COBE mission was ended, but the satellite remained in orbit. In 2006 John Mather, COBE project scientist and FIRAS team leader, and George Smoot, DMR principal investigator, won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the FIRAS and DMR results.

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   NASA’s COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) was a mission that measured and mapped the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the oldest light in the universe. The mission provided key evidence for the expanding universe theory, also known as the big bang theory, as an explanation for the origins of the universe and refined our ...

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   COBE: Cosmic Background Explorer: COBE: Coordinator of the Body of Elders: COBE: College of Business and Economics (Boise State University; Idaho) COBE: Committee on Board Establishment (American Board of Emergency Medicine) COBE: Command Operating Budget Estimate: COBE: Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion (University of Wisconsin System) COBE ...

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   COBE was a mission that measured and mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the big bang, which is the oldest light in the universe. The mission provided key evidence for the expanding universe theory, also known as the big bang theory, as an explanation for the origins of the universe and refined our ...

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   The branch of astronomy that uses observations of emissions in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum to study extraterrestrial sources such as stars, planets, galaxies, and interstellar gas and dust clouds. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

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   Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), U.S. satellite placed in Earth orbit in 1989 to map the “smoothness” of the cosmic background radiation field and, by extension, to confirm the validity of the big bang theory of the origin of the universe.

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   Definition; COBE: Cosmic Background Explorer: COBE: Coordinator of the Body of Elders: COBE: College of Business and Economics (Boise State University; Idaho) COBE: Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion (University of Wisconsin System) COBE: Code of Business Ethics: COBE: Command Operating Budget Estimate: COBE

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