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The Cosmic Microwave Background The Afterglow Of Creation

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Fun Facts

Fun Fact

Pigeon poop panic: Scientists initially blamed pigeon droppings for the cosmic static that turned out to be the Big Bang's echo.

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Quizzes

Quiz

Where was the giant horn antenna located that first detected the cosmic microwave background?

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What did the Princeton physicist Robert Dicke say when he heard about the radio static?

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What type of radiation is the cosmic microwave background primarily detected as today?

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In what year did Penzias and Wilson win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their cosmic discovery?

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In what year did Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover the cosmic microwave background?

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What was the Holmdel horn antenna originally designed to do before it detected the cosmic microwave background?

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Which university housed the theoretical physicists who explained what Penzias and Wilson had actually found?

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What animal did Penzias and Wilson suspect was causing the interference in their antenna?

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Glosario

Glossary
cosmic microwave background (noun)
It is electromagnetic radiation remaining from the early stages of the universe in Big Bang cosmology. In 1964, physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected this signal using a New Jersey horn antenna.

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