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Cosmic History Spacecraft:   Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Produced by:   NASA/WMAP Science Team Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  12 February 2003 Related Documents The Birth and Formation of Galaxies The Oldest Light in the Universe Full-sky Map Of The Oldest Light In The Universe The WMAP Spacecraft Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size cosmichistory.jpg JPEG 640 x 480 44K cosmichistory.jpg JPEG 1623 x 1217 156K cosmichistory.tif TIFF 1623 x 1217 1M WMAP observers the first light of the universe- the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light emerged 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Patterns imprinted on this light encode the events that happened only a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. In turn, the patterns are the seeds of the development of the structures of galaxies we now see billions of years after the Big Bang.

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