#wmap

[glitchcosmos]

A diagram comparing data gathered by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellites in Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos.

[mariner-5]

Why happened if you kill the whole l2 orbit spacecrafts

lets find out on todays episode of "Hubble kills everyone"!

[robinwaaaaa]

The Big Bang Gang!

[deimmortales99]

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here are some athanasia icons!

ik it's kinda low quality but when it's athy she always pretty and cute ;))

manhwa: who made me a princess

like or reblog when saved! ✔︎

[therealuniverse]

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION: A RELIC OF THE BIG BANG The vastness of space appears crushingly dark to our eyes, but it's far from empty. A phenomenon known as cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation fills the entire Universe with a nearly uniform glow that can be seen in the radio spectrum.

CMB is a relic of the Universe's initial formation, and it represents the oldest light we can observe. Its accidental discovery in 1964 by radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson helped lead to the abandonment of the steady state cosmological model. The presence of a diffuse radiation left behind by the Big Bang was predicted in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, & Robert Herman. Its smooth nature cannot be explained as coming from a point source (like stars or galaxies) and can only be interpreted as a result of the physics of the Big Bang. The young Universe was much denser and filled with hot hydrogen plasma and the radiation that emanated from it. During what is referred to as the recombination era of the Universe's formation, the plasma and the radiation began to cool and form neutral atoms. Photons could only travel short distances in this hot, dense plasma, because of the Thomson scattering that occurred when they ran into electrons and protons. Thus, the Universe was more opaque to electromagnetic radiation in its early compact state. It is believed that recombination occurred about 300,000 years after the Big Bang. Once the electrically neutral atoms formed, a separate event known as "photon decoupling" followed. As the amount of charged matter in the Universe began to decrease, photons began to travel along a much larger path without interacting with the surrounding matter. The photons that existed at the time of decoupling have decreased in temperature and energy as they travel through the expanding Universe, resulting in the residual glow we know as CMB radiation. Though the radiation is almost uniform, small irregularities (or anisotropies) can be seen at certain scales. Measuring these anisotropies gives researchers insight into certain physical qualities of the early Universe. Obtaining precise measurements of the anisotropies is still an active pursuit among scientists looking to study the conditions of the early Universe. Click here for a previous Universe post on CMB radiation: http://on.fb.me/U6VuNx -RLO Sources: http://aether.lbl.gov/www/science/cmb.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-cosmic-microw/ Image source: ESA https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/07/Planck_s_view_of_the_cosmic_microwave_background

[mosspups]

📂 ok this isn’t a ship but I just LOVE the rich and jared friendship in wmap, so any hcs for them??

send “📂 + characters/ships“ for headcanons

friendships count!!!!!!!!!!!!

play wrestling and throwing shit at each other. they love to bug each other.

platonic cuddling but theyd never admit how much they find comfort in it. not full blown cuddling but like legs over lap and all that

probably got kicked out of walmart

also dragging michael in: jared makes michael and rich do dumb shit and records it and puts it on tiktok

they sorta see each other as siblings eventually honestly you know what. like they become super close platonically even tho theyd never really tell the other how much it means to them

they have each others backs

they just love to terrorize each other for fun

rich is the first person jared comes out to as gay so they have a Bond there

[x-15]

those of you who have followed me long-term know i have a favorite satellite. it’s WMAP. it’s just, such an interesting satellite; not just in its studies, but also in reading about how it works. it’s just, WOW.

anyways, sometimes i visit the site, still, and it leaves me very vindicated and proud to see that, even 10 years after its passivization, its team is STILL receiving awards

what a good fuckin satellite.

[startswithabang]

5 NASA Photos That Changed The World

“4.) Voyager's "Pale Blue Dot" snapshot. On February 14, 1990, after more than a decade of traveling away from Earth and on its way out of the Solar System, the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its eye back towards home. Looking back at its journey, it was able to take snapshots of six planets, including the above image of Earth, from six billion kilometers away, making this the most distant photo of Earth ever taken.

Although this image was not part of the original mission plan, Carl Sagan's idea made it to fruition, prompting him to later write the following:

‘That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. […] There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.’

Voyager 1 is now some 20 billion kilometers distant, as it continues its journey into interstellar space as the most distant spacecraft from Earth.”

It’s no secret that peering out into the distant Universe is best done from space, just as looking at our entire world is best done from that same vantage point. For all of human history until the mid-20th century, this was an utter impossibility. But thanks to advances in rocketry, and how NASA managed to put space technology together, we now have views of everything from our home planet to the deepest recesses of the Universe that have taught us lessons we never could have imagined. From the most distant galaxies to a distant view of Earth, all the way back to the youngest baby picture of the Universe ever taken, NASA has been with us throughout every step of the journey. As we peer ever deeper into the abyss and put not just the cosmic story but our place in it into perspective, it’s important to periodically look back at the beautiful but science-rich images that helped shape our view of what all this is actually about.

Come see the five NASA photos that changed the world, and see if your list of five would be any different. (I bet it would be!)