The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) - 1989
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. This video was reissued by NASA for COBE's 20th Anniversary.
This COBE informational video was produced back in 1989, before the satellite embarked on its mission to study the cosmic microwave background.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Interviewee
- John Mather (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (UMBC)
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![View the entire sky with the microwave eyes of NASA’s COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite in this immersive video. COBE took the first baby picture of the universe, revealing slight temperature variations when the cosmos was just 380,000 years old. This image shows the entire sky using four years of observations by COBE’s Differential Microwave Radiometer. The central plane of our galaxy runs across the middle, and its center is marked by a white X. Red indicates hotter regions, blue colder. The fluctuations are extremely faint, varying by only 1 part in 100,000 from the average temperature. They represent density variations in the early universe thought to have given rise to the structures we see today. After stripping away foreground emission arising from dust, hot gas, and charged particles interacting with magnetic fields in our galaxy, COBE data revealed tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background — the oldest light in the universe — for the first time.(This video is formatted for 360-degree use.)Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Meetings in Underwater Ruins,” Philippe Andre Vandenhende [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM] and Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.](/vis/a010000/a014700/a014720/YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360.jpg)
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This page was originally published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.