COBE

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Mather begins leading work that develops into the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite mission

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Mather leads instrument and mission planning for COBE to test the spectrum of the microwave background

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory · Science / Astronomy

Smoot leads work on COBE instruments intended to detect tiny anisotropies in the microwave background

Cape Canaveral · Science / Astronomy

Mather leads COBE science as NASA launches the satellite to measure Big Bang relic radiation

Cape Canaveral · Science / Astronomy

Smoot leads the differential microwave radiometer team on the launched COBE mission

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Hauser leads the COBE diffuse infrared background experiment supporting early universe background studies

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Mather reports that COBE measured the microwave background spectrum as an almost perfect blackbody

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Mather helps present COBE results confirming the blackbody spectrum and anisotropy evidence

American Physical Society Meeting · Science / Astronomy

Smoot announces COBE detection of tiny microwave background temperature fluctuations

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Bennett contributes to analysis of COBE anisotropy maps that support structure formation after the Big Bang

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Science / Astronomy

Mather helps publish final COBE spectrum results that strongly support a hot dense early universe