... Credit Copyright: BICEP2 Collaboration , NSF , Steffen Richter (Harvard) Explanation: Did the universe undergo an early epoch of extremely rapid expansion? ... Yesterday, results were released showing an expected signal of unexpected strength, bolstering a prediction of inflation that specific patterns of polarization should exist in cosmic microwave background radiation -- light emitted 13.8 billion years ago as the universe first became transparent . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 March 18 . Cosmic Microwave Map Swirls Indicate Inflation . ... Explanation: Did the universe undergo an early epoch of extremely rapid expansion? ... Note how the black polarization vectors appear to swirl around the colored temperature peaks on the inset microwave sky map . ... About APOD | ...

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... Archive 2003: . From RATAN-600 observations with a matrix radiometer at a wavelength of 1 cm indications have been found of existence of relativistic electrons in the magnetosphere of Jupiter with energy of about 100 MeV, which demands revision of mechanisms of acceleration of cosmic rays of the solar wind with energy of a few MeV. ... Archive . ...

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... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

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Cosmology, Religion & Kansas . ... Cosmology is the study of the origin, current state, and future of our Universe. ... My cosmology tutorial is an attempt to summarize these discoveries. ... These measurements of very small CMB temperature fluctuations over 1% of the sky with a beam size 40 times smaller than COBE's 7 o beam confirm earlier work by a group at Penn & Princeton and data from BOOMERanG's test flight, but provide 3 to 4 times more accuracy. ... Ned Wright's Home Page . ...

. English . Russian KOI8 . Current server sed.sao.ru . Dissertation of Doctor of Sciences degree ( close to German Habilitation ) . A time to cast away stones, . and a time to gather stones together . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3 ; 5 . Full gzipped PostScript version (in Russian) is here (2005), autoreferat (short thesis in Russian) is here . Main results of dissertation work . Continue...

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One very important space mission has already provided definite answers about cosmology, the quest to understand the origin and fate of the Universe. ... Ground-based gravitational wave telescopes like LIGO and VIRGO now being completed; and space-based telescopes like LISA should open an entire new window on the Universe, by looking at the gravitational radiation being emitted by extremely large or compact sources, like double black holes, or coalescing neutron stars. ...

... The space VLBI mission RadioAstron, led by the Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute, . ... execution of a balanced scientific program for the Mission. The scientific program of the RadioAstron will consist of three major parts: the Early Science Program (ESP), . Key Science Program (KSP), and General Observing Time (GOT) projects. ... The KSP . ... a long-lasting scientific impact of the Mission. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 1 and Final Notes ; . ...

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... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...