The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope CAT was a three-element interferometer for WMAP image of the CMB anisotropy, Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation The CMB was predicted by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Hermann in the 1940s and was accidentally discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, who received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for... cosmic microwave background observations at 13 to 17 GHz, based at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is home to a number of large aperture synthesis radio telescopes, including the One-Mile and 5km instruments. It was founded under Martin Ryle (with Antony Hewish and others) in the late 1950s as a field-site of the Radio-Astronomy Group of the Cavendish... Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. It was the first instrument to measure small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the Events January January 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union Fred West, accused of mass murder, hangs himself in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham World Trade Organization is established to... 1995. When the more sensitive Very Small Array came online, the CAT telescope was decomissioned in a ceremonial bonfire.

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1. Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) (http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/cat/) on the internet
2. The first detection of small-scale structure (http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1996ApJ...461L...1S&db_key=AST&high=41986efaf711058) in the WMAP image of the CMB anisotropy, Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation The CMB was predicted by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Hermann in the 1940s and was accidentally discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, who received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for... cosmic microwave background radiation