In this section we will learn about the CMB data from WMAP (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Planck (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck). The goals ...

In 2000, using measurements of the cosmic microwave background ... not show up in the Planck data. Today’s precision cosmology, which began with COBE and continued with WMAP and Planck, requires ...

Our latest and best ever map ... The CMB was first mapped by NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) in the 1980s and 90s, then by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in ...