**COBE's Big Bang Afterglow: Mapping the Universe's Infancy**

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2:03Now here's where it gets genuinely thrilling. The CMB is incredibly faint, just 2.7 Kelvin above absolute zero. It's almost incomprehensibly cold. Kobe had to be sensitive enough to detect temperature variations of just a few millions of a degree across the entire sky. Hagen tried to find the difference between two ice cubes when they're separated by billions of light years. Over the following years, Kobe would provide humanity with the most detailed map of the universe's infancy ever captured, essentially giving us a baby picture of the cosmos itself. The data revealed tiny temperature fluctuations that would eventually become galaxies, stars, and, well, us. If you found this cosmic journey fascinating, please turn a lock turn, please subscribe to the Astronomy Tonight podcast for more mind-bending discoveries from the universe. If you want more information, check out quietplease.ai, thank you for listening to another quiet

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