COBE Finds the Big Bang
COBE Finds the Big Bang The COBE satellite was able to find hard evidence for the occurrence of the Big Bang. Further study would make this event one of the best understood and best-documented events in the history of the universe. One of the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century was the cosmic background radiation and what it means. The background radiation comes to earth from all directions equally and is nearly exactly the same (isotopy) in all directions as well. The existence and characteristics of this radiation were predicted decades before its initial characterization in 1992, but the importance… Read More »