COBE
AgencyNASA
Year1989-1993
TypeCosmology
RocketDelta II
CountryUSA
About the Mission
Detected faint temperature ripples in the cosmic microwave background, the seeds of all galaxies. The ripples were just 1 part in 100,000. Its results confirmed the Big Bang model over its rivals. Team leaders Mather and Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Opened the era of precision cosmology.
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