The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, also known as WMAP, is designed to make fundamental measurements of cosmology, the study of the properties of our universe as a whole. The spacecraft reveals conditions as they existed in the early universe by measuring the properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full sky. WMAP's data helped produce a new standard model of the properties of our universe. It pinpointed the age of our universe at billion years old to within 1 percent and captured an image of the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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