QUaD Sees the Cosmic Microwave Background (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

QUaD Sees the Cosmic Microwave Background

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The QUaD collaboration uses the 2.6-meter telescope shown here to view the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background, a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe.

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Image courtesy of Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF.

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