What is the cosmic microwave background?
Ancient light, last scattering and colourful CMB maps. How the sky’s temperature is measured, and why stronger image contrast does not change physical values.
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Ancient light, last scattering and colourful CMB maps. How the sky’s temperature is measured, and why stronger image contrast does not change physical values.
A hot, dense cosmic past, cooling and its evidence. Why the Big Bang is not a firework, and what remains unknown about an ultimate beginning.