Since its launch in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe space mission has revolutionized our view of the universe, establishing a cosmological model that explains a widely diverse ...

Since its launch in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has revolutionized our view of the universe, establishing a cosmological model that explains a widely diverse ...

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WASHINGTON – NASA released this week five years of data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of the universe and its development. It is a ...

Astronomers have released a new "baby picture" of the universe. The all-sky image draws on nine years' worth of data from a now-retired spacecraft dubbed the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP ...

About 18 months ago, we discussed a mysterious "dark flow" that was seen in early releases of the data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. At that time, we remarked that it was little ...

Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington used some fancy technology (WMAP data on the cosmic microwave background with a Mathematica calculation) to produce the sound of the Big ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background was created as the first atoms formed hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang, and it retains information about the formation of the Universe. Discovering it ...

I wrote so much about the results of the WMAP data that I didn't want to go on any more about them in that last entry. But hey, I have another blog I write for! So I wrote up a somewhat more poetic ...

(Image: Stephan's Quintet, also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stephan's Quintet is a group of five galaxies, but group member NGC 7320, at upper right, is ...