CMB anisotropies detected by COBE
Anisotropías del fondo cósmico de microondas (COBE)
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
- Credited to
- George Smoot, John Mather (COBE team)
- People
- 👤 George Smoot1945–2025👤 John Mather1946–
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
COBE measured the perfect black-body spectrum of the cosmic background and detected fluctuations of one part in 100,000, the seeds of galaxies.
NASA satellite; mission control at Goddard. Nobel Prize 2006.
What it led to
- Precision cosmology
- WMAP and Planck
- Confirmation of inflation as a framework
Built on
Made possible
- Planck precision cosmology2013-2018
- Spaceborne differential radiometers