With a sweeping 12-month observation of the entire sky, scientists using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP - Pronounced "" W-MAP "") have created the most detailed portrait ever of the infant Universe, revealing its age and other key characteristics. This new portrait - capturing the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosomic microwave background (CMB) - pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years old.

WMAP captures Images of Infant Universe ( gen 2 ) - graphics
31/1/03
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NASA - Goddart Space Flight Center
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01:00:22 Synopsis :
With a sweeping 12-month observation of the entire sky, scientists using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP - Pronounced "" W-MAP "") have created the most detailed portrait ever of the infant Universe, revealing its age and other key characteristics. This new portrait - capturing the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosomic microwave background (CMB) - pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years old.
Encoded in these patterns is the much-anticipated information about the fundamental properties of the early Universe, including the era when stars first ignited.
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Slug : WMAP - capturing the First and Oldest Light in the Universe
Description : this is a picture of the earliest light in the Universe. The new, unprecedented full-sky picture brings into focus infinitesimal patterns that mark the seeds of what lat