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Tag: cosmic microwave background

Scientists Team Up With Industry to Mass-Produce Detectors for Next-Gen Cosmic Experiment

Photo - Existing instrumentation at the Atacama Desert site where some of the CMB-S4 telecopes will be built. CMB-S4 will also include telescopes at the South Pole. (Photo courtesy of Aritoki Suzuki/Berkeley Lab)

Tiny Distortions in Universe’s Oldest Light Reveal Clearer Picture of Strands in Cosmic Web

Illustration - In this illustration, the trajectory of cosmic microwave background light is bent by structures known as filaments that are invisible to our eyes, creating an effect known as weak lensing captured by the Planck satellite (left), a space observatory. Researchers used computers to study the weak lensing signals and produce a map of these filaments, which typically span hundreds of light years in length. (Credit: Siyu He, Shadab Alam, Wei Chen, and Planck/ESA)

$40M to Establish New Observatory Probing Early Universe

Photo - The Simons Array will be located in Chile's High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at the bottom left, middle and right). The Simons Observatory will incorporate several new telescopes and set the stage for a next-generation experiment. (University of Pennsylvania)

First Hundred Thousand Years of Our Universe

Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results

BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe

Clocking an Accelerating Universe: First Results from BOSS

Measuring the Distant Universe in 3-D

Madly Mapping the Universe