Science News, October 28th, 1989
COBE: Seeking traces of the beginning
Scheduled for launch as early as Nov. 9 a satellite called the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) will search for whatever faint glimmer remains from the birth of the universe. Looking back billions of years before the appearance of Earth, COBE's planned year-long survey will focus on neither planets nor stars but on the Big Bang that cosmologists widely believe led to both.
The long-awaited Hubble Space Telescope, due to orbit Earth next March, will look at some of the oldest stars in the sky. But even they are latecomers by COBE's standards. "Hubble h...
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