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this is the cosmic background explorer

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the kobe

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this spacecraft will carry a complement

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of three infrared and microwave

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measuring instruments all designed and

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built by nasa's goddard space flight

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center greenbelt maryland

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the five thousand pound kobe will be

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deployed by a goddard managed delta

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expendable rocket following its launch

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from vandenberg

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scientists hope that data from the kobe

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instruments will remove some of the

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mystery from such murky matters as the

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nature of the big bang

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theory has it that this cataclysmic

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explosion started the expansion of the

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universe about 15 billion years ago

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with temperatures in the trillions upon

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trillions of degrees

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kobe will measure the remnants of the

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resulting radiation

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kobe project scientist dr john mather at

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goddard elaborates

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we look at the cosmic background

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radiation we're actually looking at the

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dominant form of energy in the whole

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universe this radiation fills the whole

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sky comes from every direction

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and so it adds up to be a hundred times

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as much energy as comes from all the

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stars all the galaxies

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all the suns all the planets that people

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can see with their own eyes

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um a hundred times as much as that

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so it's

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very important to realize we're looking

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at the dominant energy of the whole

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universe this is the remnant of the big

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bang itself that we're studying with the

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kobe satellite

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from its orbit more than 500 miles from

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earth the kobe also will investigate

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such matters as what made the universe

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uniform on such a gigantic scale and if

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it has a center or an edge

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kobe scientist dr michael hauser at

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goddard puts the mission in perspective

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the kobe mission is

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worth every ounce of effort we've put

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into it

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cosmology as you

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can understand is a very difficult

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problem

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to study objectively

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we are given very few

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fossils on the beach if you will

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those few

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that are

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present and accessible still to us at

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this time

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15 billion years or so

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are

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worth every bit of scrutiny we can give

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to them

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looking out into space back into time

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the kobe spacecraft will undertake the

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esoteric task of providing new insights