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Definition of Cosmic background radiation
1. Noun. (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin.
Category relationships: Cosmogeny, Cosmogony, Cosmology
Generic synonyms: Cosmic Radiation
Definition of Cosmic background radiation
1. Noun. (astronomy) The faint, uniform flux of microwave radiation that permeates all space and is the redshifted residual effect of the Big Bang ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmic Background Radiation
Literary usage of Cosmic background radiation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power And Propulsion by Ssb (2006)
"COBE: The Cosmic Background Explorer, a NASA mission launched in 1989 to study
the cosmic background radiation from the Big Bang. ..."
2. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"The COBRA (cosmic background radiation Anisotropy) instrument will search for
and map anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation at sufficient ..."
3. Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space And Time: Charting the Course for by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"They also can use these distortions, as well as supernovae, improved measurements
of the cosmic background radiation, and the spatial distribution of ..."
4. A Physicist's Labour in War and Peace: Memoirs 1933-1999 by E. Walter Kellermann (2004)
"The discovery by Penzias and RW Wilson of the cosmic background radiation in 1965
had confirmed one of the consequences of the Big Bang, namely that the ..."
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