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1. COBE is a success because the satellite led to a major discovery.
2. COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) is a NASA satellite that was launched in 1992. (Web site)
3. COBE was an Explorer class satellite, with technology borrowed heavily from IRAS, but with some unique characteristics. (Web site)
4. COBE was originally planned to be launched on a Space Shuttle in 1988, but the Challenger explosion delayed this plan when the Shuttles were grounded. (Web site)
5. COBE was designed to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Space Shuttle, which would insert it into a polar orbit.

Galaxy

1. Recent evidence, particularly from the DIRBE instrument aboard COBE, convincingly shows our galaxy to be a barred (SB) rather than a regular spiral (S). (Web site)

Participants

1. The success of COBE was the outcome of prodigious team work involving more than 1,000 researchers, engineers and other participants. (Web site)

Different Directions

1. COBE also had the task of seeking small variations of temperature in different directions (which is what the term 'anisotropy' refers to). (Web site)

Measurements

1. Measurements of the temperature were made by the COBE satellite in 1989.
2. It is based on measurements made with the help of the COBE satellite launched by NASA in 1989. (Web site)

Satellites

1. It is the successor to COBE and one of the series of medium-class (MIDEX) satellites in the NASA Explorer program.

Year

1. An ascending node at 6 PM was chosen to allow COBE to follow the boundary between sunlight and darkness on Earth throughout the year. (Web site)

Year Prior

1. Baxter sues COBE for infringement, COBE seeks SJ because 3rd party publicly used the invention more than one year prior, raising � 102(b) bar. (Web site)

Space Shuttle

1. A year later, this committee suggested a polar-orbiting satellite called COBE to be launched by either a Delta rocket or the Space Shuttle. (Web site)
2. It was that day, aboard the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) space shuttle that the necessary statistics were confirmed. (Web site)

Infrared

1. The Cobe satellite has provided an infrared image of the Milky Way's central region. (Web site)

Observations

1. The first results were received after nine minutes of observations: COBE had registered a perfect blackbody spectrum. (Web site)

Big Bang Theory

1. COBE cemented the Big Bang theory of the Universe's origins but it could not answer every question. (Web site)

Space

1. Also shown is 2x the minimum sky background from space as measured by COBE. (Web site)

Universe

1. COBE has allowed an estimate of the total energy in the Universe by sampling yet another part of the spectrum. (Web site)

Cosmology

1. The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), also referred to as Explorer 66, was the first satellite built dedicated to cosmology. (Web site)
2. The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), also referred to as Explorer 66, was the satellite built dedicated to cosmology.
3. The COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) measurements also mark the inception of cosmology as a precise science. (Web site)

Big Bang

1. COBE The Cosmic Background Explorer launched in 1989 to measure the infrared and microwave radiation left from the Big Bang.
2. Said another way, COBE proved the residual radiation after the Big Bang was smooth to within a fluctuation of 0.01 percent. (Web site)

Smoot

1. By detecting the radiation, COBE is "a wonderful time machine" able to view the young universe, Smoot said.

Cmb

1. More recently, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft measured the CMB in all directions of space, from space (i.e., from Earth orbit). (Web site)
2. This finding would have been the detection of the black-body distribution of CMB that FIRAS on COBE was to measure. (Web site)

Precise Measurements

1. The very precise measurements made by COBE eliminated a great many of the theories about the Big Bang.
2. From 1989 to 1993 the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), made very precise measurements of the temperature of this microwave background.

Satellite

1. The observations provide the most widely accepted support for the Big Bang theory until the launch of the COBE satellite in 1989. (Web site)
2. Thanks to the COBE satellite (and its DIRBE instrument), we can see just what our galaxy looks like. (Web site)
3. Below is a picture of the real Milky Way taken by the satellite COBE. The disk and center region of our Galaxy are readily recognizable.

Iras

1. To save costs, COBE would use similar infrared detectors and liquid helium dewar to those used on the IRAS. (Web site)

Cobe

1. Read more with a free trial on HighBeam.com » COBE causes big bang in cosmology.
2. In 1989, NASA sent the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite into space to do research on cosmic background radiation.
3. COBE detected extremely fluctuations (anisotropy), in the cosmic microwave background (the heat left over from the Big Bang). (Web site)

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