The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

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 ...

First, Planck data can be bypassed by combining CMB data from NASA’s WMAP probe (2001–2010) with observations by ground-based telescopes. WMAP in combination with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT, ...