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Cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1369 words) |
 | Modern scientific cosmology may be considered to begin in 1915 with Albert Einstein's publication of his general theory of relativity and the growing ability of astronomers to study very distant objects. |
| Thus the big bang theory was proposed by the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître in 1927 and rapidly confirmed by Edwin Hubble's discovery of the red shift in 1929 and later by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson in 1964. |
| In some origin beliefs, the universe was created by a direct act of a god or gods who are also responsible for the creation of humanity (see creationism). |
| LAMBDA - Cosmic Background Explorer (261 words) |
| The COBE satellite was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe to the limits set by our astrophysical environment. |
| Subsequent analyses have yielded detections of the CIB in the near-infrared DIRBE sky maps. |
| DMR - The CMB was found to have intrinsic "anisotropy" for the first time, at a level of a part in 100,000. |
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