Cosmic Microwave

Background
Melisa García Martínez
What is it?

• CMB is the leftover radiation from around 400,000 years after

the Big Bang and we can find it everywhere.
• It is the farthest and oldest light any telescope can detect
because it has a wavelength of around 2 mm, which is around
4000 times longer than the wavelength of the visible light.
How is it related to my topic?
• The Cosmic Microwave Background proves the Big Bang theory.
References
• https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/Cosmic_Microwave_Backgrou
nd_CMB_radiation#:~:text=The%20Cosmic%20Microwave%20Background%20(CMB,shockwave'%
20of%20the%20Big%20Bang

• https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/topic/cosmic-microwave-background
• https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_cmb.html
• https://plancksatellite.org.uk/science/cmb/
Vocabulary
• Isotropic: of an object having a physical property which has the same value when
measured in different directions.
• Anisotropy: of an object having a physical property that has a different value
when measured in different directions.
• Recombination: the expansion of the universe that allowed the first stable atoms
to form, it made the cosmos transparent.