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Cosmic Microwave Background

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Original - The Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations from the 7-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data seen over the full sky. The average temperature is 2.725 Kelvin (degrees above absolute zero; absolute zero is equivalent to -273.15 C or -459 F), and the colors represent the tiny temperature fluctuations, as in a weather map. Red regions are warmer and blue regions are colder by about 0.0002 degrees.

Reason

Arguably one of the most important images ever created for our understanding of the universe.

Articles in which this image appears

Big Bang
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Template:Physical cosmology
Timeline of the Big Bang
Baryon acoustic oscillations (note this specifically uses the 5 year image since a source uses it)

FP category for this image

Sciences/Astronomy

Creator

NASA / WMAP Science Team

• Support as nominator --— raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 19:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
• Comment I noticed File:WMAP 2008.png is a FP as well, so this probably should be a delist & replace... *sigh* — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 19:10, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
• Withdrawn created a delist & replace... — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 19:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)