
How was the cosmic microwave background discovered?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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What Is Blackbody Radiation?
Everything in the universe that has a temperature glows, and it glows at a specific frequency. It tends to pique at a frequency and then have a particular shape. At one frequency you'll have the highest intensity of radiation,. Then at the nearby frequencies it'll sort of fall off in a very characteristic pattern we call black body spectrum.
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