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Big Bang Confirmed: Seeing twists and turns of primordial light

By Ron Cowen

- More than 2 years ago

The latest observations of the cosmic microwave background, the faint glow left over from the Big Bang, are giving cosmologists quite a turn.

PRIMORDIAL MAP. The intensity and polarization of the cosmic-microwave-background radiation recorded by the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Among the tiny variations in temperature, yellow is hottest and red is coldest.