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How was the cosmic microwave background discovered?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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People who could have claimed the discovery of something which later won the nobel prize, they just didn't understand what they had. In 19 55, it was emile leru. And two years later, a russian gy named shamano observed a signal at the same temperature, every direction, and didn't understand it. But you can tell that it's not from any particular object because it's coming from every direction in the sky. The interesting thing about this is that there doesn't seem to be any particular sour of it. Doesn't seem like its coming from the centre of the galaxy. Don't seems like its coming from jupiter, or from the sun, or any

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