WIRE The Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was a small satellite carrying a cryogenically cooled infrared telescope designed to study starburst galaxies—vast clouds of molecular gas...
Charles L. Bennett is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He does research in cosmology, the study...
About 400000 years after the big bang, the intergalactic medium (IGM) composed of free protons and electrons. Photons could not move freely as the would...
Charles Osgood on CBS Sunday Morning reports poetically on the refined estimate of the age of the universe. For more info on the Wilkinson Microwave...
According to data received from the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe), the shape of the universe is 'flat' (as opposed to 'open' or 'closed') as...