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Cosmic History

Spacecraft:  Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Produced by:  NASA/WMAP Science Team
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Date Released: 12 February 2003

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WMAP observers the first light of the universe- the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light emerged 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Patterns imprinted on this light encode the events that happened only a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. In turn, the patterns are the seeds of the development of the structures of galaxies we now see billions of years after the Big Bang.

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