COBE Spacecraft, NASA
Artist's Conception
The COBE spacecraft is the predecessor to the WMAP Project. COBE was launched into an Earth Orbit in 1989 to make a full sky map of the microwave radiation leftover from the Big Bang. The first results were released in 1992.

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