COBE satellite

NASA's COBE (Cosmic Bakground Explorer) satellite was developed to measure the diffuxe infrared and cosmic microwave background radiation from the early Universe to the limits set by our astrophysical environment. COBE was launched on November 18, 1989 and carried three instruments: DIRBE (the Diffuse InfraRed Experiment) to search for and measure the cosmic infrared background radiation, DMR (Differential Microwave Radiometers) to map the cosmic microwave background radiation precisely, and FIRAS (Far-InfaRed Absolute Spectrophotometer) to compare the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation with that from a precise blackbody.

http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/cobe/

http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/

     

http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/Phys171/lectures/cobe.html

COsmic Background Explorer (COBE)

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/C/CO/COBE.htm

http://cryo.gsfc.nasa.gov/COBE/COBE.html

Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Engineering Page

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/research/Cobe.htm

http://www.thermalphysics.org/cobe/COBEMAP.html

The MAP and COBE Satellites

 

http://www.oarval.org/COBEirU.htm

COBE's Infrared View Of The Universe

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/resources/informal_education/allsky/galdust.html

IRAS/COBE Galactic Dust

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CIBR/images.html

Cosmic InfraRed Background Images

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1998/01/

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/rosetta/node1.html

From Gamow to COBE

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/bkg3k.html

The 3K Cosmic Background Radiation

http://www.cakes.mcmail.com/StarTrek/COBE.htm

The Full Sky Map Made By The COBE Satellite DMR Instrument Showing Evidence For The Wrinkles in Time

http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/dirbe/irastr.html

http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-PID/George-Smoot.html

COBE sky map

http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw_cobe.html

Cobe views the Milky Way in the Infrared light

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/rosetta/node4.html

The Science Harvest: From COBE to MAP and Planck