PIPER (Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer)

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This image shows an oval that represents the whole sky if you folded it out onto a flat piece of paper. The oval is dotted with many regions ranging from blue, green, yellow, and red in color. While the image looks chaotic, the blue regions are nearly always surrounded by green. The yellow are embedded in the green, and red embedded in the yellow. These show temperature differences in the early universe, which ultimately lead us to see where matter clumped together to form the structures we see today.

What Can We Learn from the Universe’s Baby Picture?

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Scientists examine the universe’s “baby picture” for clues about how it grew into the cosmos we know now.

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