Cosmic Exploration · discovery
The Cosmic Microwave Background
1965 · Robert Wilson, Arno Penzias
- Year
- 1965
Description
An antenna hiss that would not go away in any direction, at any hour, in any season. They evicted a pair of pigeons and scrubbed out the droppings; the 3 K signal remained. It was the afterglow of the Big Bang, and it settled the argument with the steady state.
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